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CHICKEN COOP, HOOPPOLE, LICKSKILLET, SAND COLLEGE, AND JOINTListen to the echoes of these and more than a hundred other one and two-room schools in Monroe County, Indiana. The members of the One-Room School Committee, a part of the Monroe County Retired Teachers Association, take pleasure in presenting this book. Echoes documents the early history of education in Monroe County, Indiana from the 1800s to the last school in 1967. Many people have shared their early memories, photographs, and mementos from Monroe County's early rural schools. In addition to what was originally gathered, we have added information from many former teachers and students. We have recorded and transcribed interviews, received written stories and documents, held many telephone conversations, and have made a serious effort to be accurate in our reporting. Echoes contains 285 photographs of school buildings, students, and maps showing the locations of these schools. While we have made every effort to be accurate, we realize that people's recollections may vary, names may be misspelled, and some dates may not be correct. These individual memoirs capture the atmosphere and the spirit of Monroe County's one-room and two-room schools. Let this book take you back to a simpler time--to the hills and hollows of southern Indiana. Walk with Monroe County's children through the fields and along unpaved roads to the little schoolhouses with warm pot-bellied stoves. Spend a little time with teachers organizing learning for all eight grades. Sit with students at the recitation bench and then go outside at lunchtime and learn how to play andy over or stinkbase, and listen to these echoes.We dedicate this book to all the early teachers in Monroe County: to those whose names appear in this book, and to many whose names have been lost. They taught under primitive conditions with meager facilities and few supplies; they had varying amounts of personal education, and little remuneration. Despite all this, these teachers devoted their talents, their energy, and their affection to the children in their little schools. They provided a solid foundation for the educational system in Monroe County, Indiana.
School days, like our everydays, have changed. But the obsolete world of the one-room schoolhouse filled with rough-hewn desks still lingers. The echoes of yesteryear live on in the old-fashioned classrooms that still stand today. Harkening back to a time when the three Rs actually stood for reading, 'riting, and religion, Eric Sloane's sketchbook explores the history and spirit of early American schools. In this vivid slice of Americana, he tells of when paper was a precious commodity, explains the origins of words such as "blackboard" and "moonlighting," and offers evocative illustrations of New England's eighteenth- and nineteenth-century schoolhouses and their delightfully modest interiors. Filled with insight, warmth, and honest nostalgia, "The Little Red Schoolhouse" is an enchanting journey into a bygone past.
This story is a true depiction of life during and following the Great Depression era, when much of the populace was suffering from the lack of bare necessities. Scores of those living in that period of time were deprived of the very basics; unless, of course, they could live off the land as the farmers did. The government controlled some items such as sugar and coffee and only a limited supply was allotted according to the availability and the level of need. Other hardships endured included the mode of transportation, the primitive methods used in farming and the effort to provide for the general well-being of families, some of them having several members. The story takes the author through the survival, marriage, and raising her own family as the effects of the depression were waning
If Abner Musser hadn’t run out of sons, his neighbors say, The Buck would have been as big as Pittsburgh in another 10 years. This area in Southern Lancaster County reminds me more and more of the region just east of Lancaster. I suppose the words that condense this thought could be: Bird-In-Hand gained, Paradise lost. Quote from Robert Risk: “Death does not end all-it begins everything.” If Ma Garner heard a ruckus outside her house at night she raised her bedroom window, shot once, then opened fire with an arsenal of words that may have stung worse than the shotgun pellets. The resourceful human mind has developed to strive for the betterment of mankind, yet the human spirit has evidently never abandoned the cave. At Woodstock there were numerous drug busts, at our gathering all drugs were handed out before the meal.
This modern retelling of the classic Yiddish folktale and Caldecott Honor book It Could Always Be Worse asks: What do you do when the school lunchroom gets too crowded? The students at Parley Elementary have a hard time using the space in their lunchroom efficiently. When they get tired of shoving and arguing, they write a letter to their principal asking for help. She responds by moving all the science projects into the lunchroom. Now it's even more crowded! Through a series of letters and increasingly hilarious scenarios, the lunchroom gets more and MORE chaotic. When the principal finally announces that the lunchroom is once again only to be used for lunch, the students are overjoyed with the result.