Albert "Doc" Merritt is pictured second from the left in the photograph taken in the 1940s. Behind the truck is the clubhouse.
| "Albert Merritt was a rather small man. He was also a Negro in a practically all-white community. But neither factor kept him from touching the lives of thousands of people in the Martinsville community from the early 1900s to the late 1950s. During this time he served an estimated 2,000 boys through his Boys' Club." Written by Bette Nunn.
Albert "Doc" Merritt is pictured second from the left in the photograph taken in the 1940s. Behind the truck is the clubhouse. |
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Lunch was served family style with flowers on the table at North School in the 1930s. |
| 1940s. With scarcely any smiles appearing on their faces in this photograph from the 1940 Artesian, the band appeared in a fall political parade, winter basketball and an April contest, two community concerts, and performed at P.T.A. meetings, and school assemblies. It was under the direction of Mr. Aden K. Long. | |
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Down at the old "swimming hole," these boys wearing wool bathing outfits find respite from Indiana's summer heat and humidity. Lloyd James remembers that Boys' Club founder Albert Merritt would often take a truckload of boys swimming in the late afternoons, going either to Indian Creek south of town or Lambs Creek in Jefferson Township. |
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