My grandmother used to tell me that when she was in school they would have to walk (or sometimes ride the horse)from Joffre to Autaugaville to go to school, which is a good twenty miles. Fess(McDavid) though, was very strict. If anybody was late, he would be standing there in the road out from the school and as they approached, having walked a distance to the schoolhouse, Fess would be waving his arm and shouting "Go Back! Go Back!" You didn't go to school that day. Haha. I would have been pissed to hell though if I had had to walk that long and turn back around though. Fess, god love him. He was something of a man for sure.