Hello, All! If you are traveling to Ohio, I think you would enjoy an overnight in our one-room Dunkle Schoolhouse! It's one of our restored historic guest...
I was recently sent a request for help tracking down a photo of a particular one-room school. I e-mailed her back and suggested she contact the local county...
I'm going to paste in the information from the brochure below. A pdf version is saved on the oneroom webpage which as a list member you can sign in and access...
Tenth Annual Country School Association of America Conference June 21-23, 2010 Chickasha, Oklahoma Blazing the Trail: Education Among the Earliest Americans ...
Sorry to post this off topic, but I am at my wit's end here. This isofficially driving me nuts. I’m trying to remember the nameof a Western I read about 10...
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PMcMillion@...
Aug 23, 2009 9:55 pm
If you find it, let us all know. I would like to read it! Hugs, Pat McMillion In a message dated 8/23/2009 11:10:44 A.M. Central Daylight Time, ...
This weekend was the annual Iowa One-Room School event sponsored by the Iowa Historic Preservation Alliance. Thanks again to Bill and Faith Sherman for...
A volunteer will be making our benches/desks over the winter in preparation for our school classes next year. The desks will be similar to many we've seen in...
I was really happy with the guy who found our rare, jacketed 1910 Smith System Convection Heater for our school three years ago. He also restored, delivered...
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Esther Carroll
lcarroll@...
Nov 12, 2009 2:38 am
We've found that real desks are available and have been able to acquire enough to furnish the classroom. Through antique malls, yard sales, etc. maybe you...
I've outfitted our homeschool schoolroom here at home (my ex-dining room) with four such desks, all gotten in the last month or so, for about $50 apiece,...
Back in August,something reminded me of a book I had read a LONG time ago. I asked andposted it everywhere in hopes somebody else could help me identify...
Okay, we've all seen those list of rules for teachers etc. – well while doing research on something completely different I ran across an 1853 version from...
I'm kind of confused. Do you mean you found it in an actual copy of the New England Farmer from 1853 or do you mean you found it in another paper sourcing it...
I mean I found it in the 1853 issue of the NEW ENGLAND FARMER I was doing research in - so yes, in the period paper, not a copy, not a quote from a newer...
Interesting list from your 'smoking gun' However, don't forget that in those days, each School Board had the power of setting their own perameters with much...
Fay - that is kind of the point of my posting: most if not all of these "rules" we see posted on websites and at school house museums are not real and cannot...
I'm re-posting this request with the thought that it sounds like something from a one-room school recitation and maybe one of you could help identify it. Sarah...
Sarah, Thank you so much for sharing this piece. My experience is like yours. I think most of the marriage restrictions here in New England are post- WW I....
I think that we may be overlooking the fact that prior to the dates mentioned,(WWI) most of the rural teachers were MEN. The old school Master. It wasn't...
Hello! We at the City of Greeley Museums are excited to hear about educational and marketing efforts of other museums during this economic downturn. Sharing...
Sarah, I have not found contracts referring to marriage for Scottsdale Schools, but I know from my research about the teachers that many of them were married....
I have another blog entry I thought might be of interest. http://trundlebedtales.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/number-of-one-room-schools Sarah S. Uthoff ...
