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pictures with us, said, “The gym had big 4x6 wooden windows.”  When the weather was warm, they would raise the windows and prop them up to cool the gym.  The Perryville players knew how to adjust their “crip” shots to stay inside the gym.  However, when the visitors made their crip shots (lay ups), they often sailed out the windows.  Perryville was very proud of their facilities.  They took their basketball seriously and sold candy bars to pay for their uniforms.

 

In 1947 or ‘48, the gymnasium was torn down and the lumber was taken to Union Hill.  Mr. Whitely was not sure but believes part of the lumber was used to construct Union Hill’s gym in later years.

 

hovered around a big old round wood stove. 

One of the greatest things to happen was when the men in the community built a small room off the school house for a lunchroom.  All our mothers took turns cooking so we could have good hot lunches.  They were cooked on an old wood cook stove, which kept us warm in the winter.  We

each had to bring our own plate, soup bowl, drinking glass, spoon and fork.  We loved the good hot lunches and soup, but on warm sunny days we missed our biscuit with a piece of fried ham, or a baked sweet potato with butter, or maybe a fried peach pie out on the playground.

 

Brumley consolidated with Union Hill in 1943.  We Brumley kids loved to say, “We came to Union Hill with Mr. Ross.” 

At Brumley we drank water from the well on the school ground, played ball on the packed dirt courts, and had a playhouse down in the woods.  Mr. Ross Rang the bell with a rope from the ceiling.  Winter months found us

“I Remember Brumley School….” (by:  Virginia Beckham Carroll)