March 23

The Writing of “Long Time Coalhurst Resident”

The Lethbridge Herald recently ran an article about our project.  You can check it out at this link:

Coalhurst Students Put a Modern Spin on History

One of the people who read it was Charles Wesselman, who lived in Coalhurst for more than 70 years beginning at the age of one.  He called and asked if he could come in to talk to us and we said yes!  He provided pictures for us to scan which you can see below.

One of the pictures was the infamous “slide” picture.  Mr. Wesselman is in it!  He told us the picture was taken at the “Low School” sometime in the late 20’s or early 30’s.  He’s near the top of the slide on the ladder and it’s hard to see him.  He remembers that several of the students in his class were recent immigrants to Canada.  He graciously consented to try to help us make a second attempt to recreate the picture.  It was still hard.  We have come to the conclusion that slides must have been less slippery back then!  They had more than 20 kids on the slide.  We could manage about 12 before the person at the bottom was pushed off.  Although the looks on their faces suggest otherwise, be reassured that no grade 1/2 students were injured in the taking of this picture!  The original slide picture with Mr. Wesselman in it is already on our blog on this page:   Remember When #3


Posted March 23, 2012 by darlenehubber in category 1913-2013

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