Andy Over the Schoolhouse

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Dunham School, standing in a grove of trees, surrounded by a fence. Seven children play "Andy-Over-the-Schoolhouse," a game in which they throw a ball over the schoolhouse roof. A baseball diamond is in the back right corner. The school is built of brick with a door in the center and a bell tower. An American flag flies on a flagpole on the left. A portion of the girl's and boy's outhouses can be seen on the far left and far right.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."