Thompson remembers how friends who lived outside Hiwasse Arkansas got to school. There was ‘a pickup with a cover on it—a wooden cover— that was the school bus’. [00:14:48]
#1: Margaret and Clifford Thompson on their wedding day, August 1952
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#2: Margaret Banks (Thompson) (far right) with her sisters: (l-r) Nell, Lorine, Jean, and Dorothy
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#3: Pencil drawing of Hiwasse School, by Susan Fraley in 1998
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#4: Main street in Hiwasse, Arkansas, ca. 1913
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#5: Margaret Thompson's father, Virgil Banks, in his store with Lois Clark (middle) and Bertha Cowgur, Hiwasse, Arkansas, ca. 1920s
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#6: Margaret Thompson's father, Virgil Banks, as the station master (see arrow) at the railway depot in Hiwasse, Arkansas, ca. 1920s
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