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Fred Lynch
Fred Lynch retired in 2018 after capturing images for the Southeast Missourian since 1975, in that time moving from black-and-white to color, from film to digital and to video. The blog title is a nod to an earlier era of news photography and the 4x5 Speed Graphic: It's more important to be there for the shot than to worry about technical details.
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Indian Creek School

Posted Wednesday, September 3, 2014, at 12:00 AM

Indian Creek School is shown in this undated photo by G.D. Fronabarger. The school became part of the Nell Holcomb R-4 School District when the new school opened in 1960. Other schools included Juden, Brooks, Coker, Egypt Mills and Iona.

From The State Historical Society of Missouri:

Place name: Indian Creek
Description: A large creek flowing east through southern Shawnee Township into the Mississippi River. Called Table River, Riviere Table, or The Devil's Tea Table in 1797 when Cornelius Arent settled here. Table River was named from a projection of rock resembling a table on the southern side of the creek. It was pointed out as the Devil's Tea Table by rivermen. The rock is now blasted away. Called Indian Creek since 1800 for the Shawnee Indians who had villages here. (Douglass I 79, 178, Houck I 213, II 191, Putz)
Source: Hamlett, Mayme L. "Place Names Of Six Southeast Counties Of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1938.

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  • That is a ton of family history in one photo.

    -- Posted by Pops90 on Wed, Sep 3, 2014, at 8:19 AM

  • What year is that shown in the class picture accompanying the Sept. 4, 2014 blog? I started school there at age 5 in 1939 and my brother started in 1936. Our father (Lem Bollinger) was Superintendent/Principal(?) I believe the highschool section of the building was smaller, then.

    -- Posted by Lola Wheeler on Thu, Sep 4, 2014, at 7:54 AM
    Fred Lynch
    The picture was published May 6, 1949. William Sheets is the principal in the photo with Mrs. Sewell Woods, the lower grades teacher.

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