Friday, May 12, 2006
Blogging About Small and One Room Schools
Today's One-Room School House: Good For Kids?
By EdWonk
Mrs. Cornelius tells us that one of the last functioning one-room school houses is under threat: Go slow when you drive through Croydon, N.H. It's a tiny place with a general store, a town hall, one church and a red brick, one-story school. Croydon's school was built in 1780 and has been in continuous operation ever since. But change is coming. It's a matter of growth. Most of America's one-room...
Small Town Life
By Clarence Fisher
I saw my first robin when I was walking to school this morning. The snow is almost entirely gone, but the leaves have yet to emerge. Still the colours of fall. The ground filled with dried out, crunchy leaves and a washed - out blue sky. The wind is still cold as the ice on the lake in front of my house has several weeks to go until it will disappear. But there is no doubt, spring has arrived. Even though I woke up to several centimetres of snow yesterday....
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