Well, when Hamilton School was being built, I didn’t want it to be built. I thought the children were going to kill me by climbing on me. But they didn’t for awhile but then they started to climb me. All of my bark came off. The people brought some basketball baskets. When about five hundred were here, that’s when the fights began. Boy – I hated when they would fight; boys and girls bumped into me. A lady named Granny Fanny planted me here. I have been in this spot for a very long time.
Originally published in The Paper, February 1975.
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