Gladys Mohler vividly remembers her first school. When she set off for class in the fall of 1932, the Excelsior School was just over the fence from her parents’ farm in Manor Township. Her dog would ...
My first experience with a one-room schoolhouse is from very early in life and somewhat unique. The first house I remember living in was a large, white, four-square home in Central Illinois in the ...
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Bethel one-room schoolhouse where PT Barnum studied may be saved
If the rear of the building turns out to be this historic structure, we are happy to gift it to the town – come and get it,” ...
My mother-in-law, Elvina, attended a country school. I have written the following story based upon her handwritten notes: On her first day of school in 1928, she felt afraid. What was it going to be ...
KEARNEY, Neb. (KOLN) - The floorboards creaked as Nora Lindner stepped into a one-room schoolhouse at the Trails and Rails Museum in Kearney. The retired teacher remembers attending a country school ...
Editor's note: This is the first in a multi-part series on one-room schoolhouses: their history and their present status in rural communities. If you have a story about attending a one-room ...
Backed against a wall, the visiting Pittsburgh teacher barely escaped a thundering mob of moppets carrying chairs. A second herd crashed by, lugging lightweight desks; then came a teacher, pushing a ...
A Nebraska woman recounts her childhood education in a one-room schoolhouse with no modern amenities during the 1960s in ...
The One Room, One Teacher scholarship program pays tribute to pioneering Nebraska educators like Nora Van Pelt Lindner, who attended a one-room school as a young girl and spent nearly 40 years as a ...
In Northern California’s Napa and Sonoma Valleys, potential home owners might tour one of the popular wine region’s many Tuscan-inspired villas or maybe a modern take on a rustic farmhouse or even a ...
The one-room school let her hear the older students’ lessons, which helped Mohler learn enough to skip the second grade. Until about 50 years ago, most Lancaster County residents learned in one-room ...
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