Looking Back: Good old school days in Meeker

The fall start of “school days, school days, good old golden rule days” has always meant gathering school supplies for “opening day” in the fall, yet one Axial Basin family’s fall tradition differed a bit from families nowadays hurrying around to gather the required school supplies.
The Sweeney family oral history in Volume II of the Rio Blanco Historical Society’s “This Is What I Remember” included the note that Mr. Sweeney believed in the effectiveness…