•October 5, 2016•

By Mike Brothers
NP Managing Editor

Schools are so much different now.

Maybe that’s because times are so much different now.

For Oh Brother recollections of those early days of elementary school are still imbedded in what little memory I have left.
When I started attending McKinley School in 1957, most schools were located in neighborhoods where our exposure to the real world was limited to the few blocks that surrounded it.

We lived within two blocks of the Dorrisville School District border.

Although inside the city of Harrisburg, Dorrisville was really its own community and had a school that went from kindergarten through the eighth grade.

Uptown Dorrisville had Tuttle’s Market and Arnold’s Market, two laundromats and Katie’s Cafe with a Ford garage on the corner.
Dorrisville was the home of most of the public housing which gave the school a concentration of children most of the other neighborhood schools such as McKinley didn’t have.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.