I just stumbled upon this photo taken in August of 1979 by my father, Glen A. Johnston.

It is a photo of the first school that he went to. Yes, it is a rather quaint, 1-room schoolhouse. I don't know when it was built, but Dad attended classes there in the last half of the 1920s.

The ragweed and Queen Ann's lace are in full bloom by the front gate. The schoolhouse is painted in the ever-present-in-the-countryside barn red. If you look carefully you can see the 2 lightning rods, 1 at each end of the roof's ridgeline. Lightning was an almost endless problem for farmers and others in this part of Ontario. The barns on our farm on Johnston Road were struck and burned down 3 times that I know of, each time when they were full of crops, swine and milk cows. Yes, there were lightning rods on the barns on each occasion :-( The last one broke my Dad's Uncle Wellie's spirit. He gave up farming due to the loss and partly because of his age too. It was akin to the straw that broke the camel's back. It was a sad day for all of us in the family.