Bobsled rescue edit

This is the real story as edited by Uncle Jack. Kids see if you can tell the difference.

Bobsled Rescue from Atwood School, part 1

This little docudrama was set in the small town of Atwood, Indiana at the time of the big snow of 1927-8.

Early on most of the schools in the county (Kosciusko) were small with names like Frog Palace, Lick Skillet, Buzzard’s Glory and Bloody Corner. Atwood school was fairly new and larger. The first graduating Atwood Hi class was the class of 1912 the same year that Washington I. Anglin, aka Daddy Wash, started driving the school bus. These conveyances were called hacks at that time. They were motorized in 1916. The driver who was usually a farmer bought the flat bed truck that a bus body structure was mounted on at the beginning of the school year. This body was removed at the end of the school year so that the farmer could use the truck for farm work. One had to go to Bluffton In. to get this done.

The morning of the big snow showed no signs of a huge blizzard. This was before REMC but even if radios had been available to them then, the radio did not have elaborate weather predicting capabilities and the announcer most likely said “it looks like snow” at the end of the news.

Up early, Daddy Wash was starting up the school hack to drive through the few inches of snow about 5 miles to Atwood. Most of the kids in the early stages of the pick up came streaming out of his own house because they were his kids.

There was Dal ( Dallas), a sophomore in high school, Wop (my dad who’s real name was Don as you know) was a freshman, Wendy (Wendell) was in sixth grade, -----go to the next blog above.