As the Whitney School closes its doors this month after some 125 years, it's a bittersweet experience.
At a "Whitney Reunion" gathering this weekend, there'll be lots of stories, much laughter, and perhaps a tear or two, as former students, teachers, board members, and others come together to commemorate the role of "Whitney School" in their lives.
It'll be particularly fun to see and visit with the likes of Mary Daniels, who not only attended the school and graduated from high school there in 1935, she would later teach at the school. We expect that Ruth Ann Connell will be on hand, too, another of the early school teachers.
And there will be students, too. Hopefully, lots of them -- visiting and sharing memories of days gone by.
That's really what this web site is all about: days gone by. Our focus is on the village of Whitney, nestled in a quiet corner of Dawes County in far northwestern Nebraska.
This brief introduction seems necessary, since this is something of a "new" beginning for Whitney Reflections. Some years back we inaugurated a different Whitney Reflections web site, replete with photographs, a few stories, cemetery information and other topics we thought folks might find interesting. It was all intended to be a new source of information about this interesting little town -- now a mere shadow of its former self.
But that web became cumbersome to maintain, and we decided to "relocate" its content to a new site. Since I'm a bit of a luddite, that task may take a while before the transformation is complete, but it will allow for more frequent entries and will result in a more dynamic site.
So......this really is a work in progress, but we have great hopes and expectations that it will become a site we can update more frequently and integrate into a suite of similar historic web sites, like our Dawes County Journal and Black Hills History.
Come back and visit us from time to time. We'll try to make it worth your while!
Larry & Karen Miller
Spearfish, South Dakota
