LIVERMORE FALLS — Local people will have a chance to walk down memory lane Friday night when Spruce Mountain High School teacher Ken Landry and several of his students show a documentary on the history and people of the former Livermore Falls High School.

After the event, the 45-year-old school will close its doors for good and students will attend Spruce Mountain High School in Jay starting in late summer.

Livermore Falls High School became Spruce Mountain High School after SAD 36 and the Jay School Department merged four years ago. The former Jay High School is also named Spruce Mountain High School.

Kasey Richards, a junior at the Livermore Falls high school, said she and others interviewed more than 35 teachers who have retired from the school, as well as many alumni.

One of them, 91-year-old Gloria Wagner, was the school’s first secretary. She began her duties when the high school was in what is now the former middle school.

“She said she carried her typewriter up the hill,” Richards said.

Wagner was also a 1939 graduate of Livermore Falls High School.

Landry said he believes people will enjoy seeing interviews with former teachers and wandering around the halls, perhaps paying a visit to their old locker rooms.

“There’s not a lot different from 1968, except for the teachers,” he said. “I hope people come out to take the time, to see if it sparks their memories.”

A closing ceremony for the school was held last week before the Class of 2013 graduated.

Students have since left their handprints on doors and footprints on the pavement leading into the school.

Richards, of Fayette, said her parents and grandparents also graduated from Livermore Falls High School.

“This sounded like so much fun — to do a documentary and a last piece of history for the school,” she said.

The film will be shown at 5 and 7 p.m. in the school cafeteria, at no charge. People are welcome to come early.

The film will also be recorded on DVDs and sold that night for $10, with all proceeds going toward the cost of next year’s yearbooks.

Landry said it will also be shown on local access Channel 7 beginning soon after the film is shown Friday.

“We were so impressed with the enthusiasm of the retired teachers,” Landry said. “Some had never been in the building since they retired.”

“I’m very proud,” Richards said.

She’s also proud that she will be in the first combined class of Spruce Mountain High School in Jay next year.  

Several community businesses donated snacks for Friday’s event.