TOM’s TALE: “I went to school when I was about 7, walked 1 1/2 miles. We walked through the snow, then no one opened the roads. People drove through the fields with their horses and sleigh. … When I was about 11 years old I was kept home on good days to work the farm and on stormy days I was sent to school.”

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