River Valley Pioneer Museum | Canadian, Texas
I love driving by the old ruins of the Canadian High School on Kingman Avenue, now decorated with graffiti art. I try to imagine what the students were aspiring to be in a world so very different from ours today. This “Class Prophecy,” written by Helen Gerlach and found in the 1913 Canadian High School annual, gives us a glimpse of who they wanted to become:
“One bitter cold evening as I sat…