One of My First Schools-Upper Heath Creek School
I think I was seven or eight years old and we lived on this small mountain (hill) when school started that year. It was very hot as August usually is in West Virginia and we had no new shoes to wear. In those days, new shoes was not in our budget then or later. If we had any sole on the bottom and a string or strap to hold them on...we had shoes. The school house was I think about a mile up the holler. It was one room and hung from the side of the hill. Under the lower side of the building we children would play on rainy days. My very favorite game was to find a small mound of dirt with a little hole in the top of the mound. We would squat around this very small mountain and call "Doodle Bug, Doodle Bug, come to your Mother". For some reason and I have no idea why or how, but a very small little bug would come up out of that small mound of dirt and just sit there. It looked something like a ladybug, but it was black. I have no idea why it came to our voices, but it