ORIGINS
I grew up in a small Ohio town and I rode the school bus from 1st through 12th grades. My bus ride always included a country road on which every school day we saw a one-room brick school house. (SW corner of Stine Rd and Enon-Xenia Pike). As the years went by I watched this wonderful, familiar friend fall apart. After I married the school really began to deteriorate. Every time we visited the area I would want to take a photo of the school but never did. Finally, when we went specifically for the task, the school was gone. It was a huge loss for me and, since that time, whenever we pass a one-room school it is a joy to stop to take a picture or two. Thus, our collection here and the blog with schools in other states. Jill :oD
4 comments:
My husband's great grandfather was Henry Kuntz who used to live in this structure after it was a school.
I'll bet you have some great stories to tell about it!
I was so surprised to see the "unnamed log school." My husband's great-grandparents lived there using it as a house! (He fought in the Civil War for the Union and was actually saved by Confederate soldiers who (after he was shot) made a tent shelter for him and gave him enough food and water to survive till the Union came to retrieve him several days later. They saved his life. Such was the paradox of war).
Thank you so much for that history lesson!
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