It was actually built on about a block or two of rural ground, with a farm out the front door, another on its left, and a row of full-scale chicken houses on the northeast side, (three very large houses with tan boards and paper now rotting), and each came along when this school became a part of the universe.
Snarr School is two story brick, sans the windows, for open black holes to the darkness, holding the warped wooden floors and the days of two -plus - two, hop scotch, and overalls being worn to school with no shoes.
The bus that is parked out front has at least ninety years on its skin: the tires and the axles all worn or gone, each window either broken or pulled, the covers on the lights and their lamps each taken, it is the death of something great, taking close to a hundred years, making it dissolve into the earth.
This school played a part, a solid part, of many lives, and a look with quick thoughts, leaves one feeling the best about the rural schools they took as part of the day. Eighth grade kept a lot of people fed, a lot of homes built, and the earth on its circular roll.
Ralph Peck
Photo by Ralph Peck
Snarr School -Some distance out of Oologah- just outside of Talala, Oklahoma West of 169
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