Boy's Bathroom

Cove School will be better than ever, I was inside yesterday to find the place a beehive of reconstruction from the hurricane, workers are all over. The new roof has been on for a few weeks now, the northeast corner where bricks were ripped out is beautifully repaired

Walking in the front north entry, insulation of the ceilings is well along, and tongue-in-groove ceilings and walls are being restored

Our first grade classroom is looking good, insulation and new ceiling almost finished

The recovery project includes replacement of exterior windows with better than new. 

This was done with restoration of StAndrews School some years ago, and the results are beautiful. On the back side of the building, already the old original windows are mostly out

and covered over awaiting installation 

of the new windows

with a stack of the old treasures accumulating in the coaches "office" 

that in our Time at Cove School was the boiler room for the steam radiator heating system. During our recovery of the building nearly twenty years ago, I personally, along with Bill Lloyd for whom our building is named, reglazed almost every single one of those panes from one end of the building to the other, both sides - - memories of a happy time of personal reconstitution and making a unique and irreplaceable friendship. 

I hope that the replacement windows in what was once the school library, now divided into two classrooms, will be the old type and not the crank out jalousie windows that were there and such a bother to deal with; but if not, no complaints!

On the south end of the building, Robert and friends can, at the moment, not escape class (was it Mrs Watson's 4th grade?) and hooky off to the yacht club

because their escape hatch is boarded up.

Concluding my walk round and back toward my car, the azaleas are already past their best moment, but a clear sign of resurrection in spirit as well as body. I needed that, almost desperately!

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