The following is a recollection from the creator: "Andy-Over-the-Schoolhouse. Two recesses a day, plus the noon hour, gave us time for play. Fall and spring were times for baseball games, boys and girls teaming together on a baseball field well worn from seventy-five years of play. The old merry-go-round turned most of the time during recess, sometimes swinging back and forth until it nearly fell off its center pole. Dividing into sides, we played Andy-Over-the-Schoolhouse, tagging each other to increase our team size as the game progressed. One warm spring day, with the smell of peanut butter and jam sandwiches still hanging in the noontime air, we built a grass house over fallen branches. Some older students later boasted about doing unusual things in the darkness of the grass house."

Most of the text is from Richard Quinney, “A Place Called Home,” Tales From the Middle Border. Madison, WI: Borderland Books, 2007, pp. 1-38 (Originally published in the Wisconsin Magazine of History, 67 (Spring 1984), pp. 163-184.