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Evelyn Bullock's family settled in Hygiene to farm, arriving in a covered wagon. She relates family history and stories of her childhood, then moves on to describe her 12 years of teaching at the Montgomery School, a two-room schoolhouse one mile east of Lyons, from 1938 to 1950. Two of her former students, Norma Weese Conaway and Dorothy Dirkes George, join in the conversation to reminisce about teaching and learning in multi-grade classrooms during a time when a teacher made $800 per year, had to remain unmarried, and school was never cancelled for weather, no matter how deep the snow. For years, the three women have met weekly for lunch to share memories. In this interview they discuss a typical school day, special activities, playground games, the coal-fired furnace, lunches, the school baseball team, and walking to school. They also identify classmates in old photographs. Evelyn discusses her family, the family farm near Lyons, her teacher training, applying for her job, discipline of an unruly student, and her janitorial duties at the school.