When the 'new' Bradner School opened in 1915, the festivities included a midnight dinner followed by a dance that went until 2am.
I say 'new' because the school itself wasn't new, the celebration was actually for the opening of an additional classroom put on the building, effectively mirroring the building. The original one room school actually opened in 1913. Even this wasn't the original Bradner School, it was the second. This school would later burn down in December 1924, the same day that the school's Christmas programme was to have been presented.
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When the 'new' Bradner School opened in 1915, the festivities...