School Women of the Prairies and Plains, Mary Hurlbut Cordier

Down the Myrtle Path:
The History and Memories of Town Hall School, Hannah Geddes Wright

America's Country Schools, Andrew Gulliford

Iowa’s Country Schools: Landmarks of Learning, William Sherman
 

School Women of the Prairies and Plains
Author: Mary Hurlbut Cordier
2nd Paperbound printing, © 1998
ISBN 0-8263-1774-X

Down the Myrtle Path:
The History and Memories of Town Hall School
Compiled & written by: Hannah Geddes Wright
Edited by: Dr. Thomas Gwaltney, Professor, Eastern Michigan University

114 pg. soft-cover, $10.00**

In 1987, Town Hall School was donated by the Geddes family to Eastern Michigan University to be restored as a living museum (where children can attend class and relive the one-room school experience).

The author, herself a former student, has researched the history of the school, and collected the memories of other former students and teachers. Also read about and see pictures of the dramatic move of the old school in Down the Myrtle Path.

A former student writes: “To say I was delighted with my Town Hall School book would be putting it mildly! It was like a trip down memory lane, the wonderful simple days when we didn't have material things, but cherished all the memories we gathered."

Down the Myrtle Path,©1997, Hannah Geddes Wright.

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along with check payable to Hannah Geddes Wright.
  
Hannah Geddes Wright
4209 N. Dearing Road
Parma, Michigan 49269
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America's Country Schools
Author: Andrew Gulliford 

Third Edition soft-cover, $29.95**

For more that 250 years, America's country schools were the heart of American education. On the frontier, country schools also served as community centers for church gatherings, dances, spelling bees, elections, wedding, and burials. In 1939, there were approximately 150,000 one-teacher schools in the United States. Today less than 1000 remain.

America's Country Schools is a comprehensive work that chronicles a distinctive era in American education. The first section provides an overview of the historical role of rural schools in the United States. It is followed by a section on architecture and concludes with several chapters on documenting and preserving country schools.

The text is rich in anecdotes taken from extensive research and interviews with teachers and pupils. More than four hundred striking photographs historical views, modern-day scenes, exteriors and interiors, help bring to life the people as well as the buildings.

This award-winning book is the first of its kind to examine the country school as a distinct architectural type.

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University of Oklahoma Press
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Iowa’s Country Schools: Landmarks of Learning
Edited by: William Sherman
ISBN 0931209-73-0

256 pg., soft-cover, $27.95**

Iowa’s Country Schools, published in cooperation with the Iowa State Education Association, is the first comprehensive compilation of information on one-room schools.

It includes history of country schools, impact of schools on communities, personal memories, articles on architecture, preservation and a county-by-county description of the status of existing schools.

"Iowa's country Schools is a benchmark book in both local history and rural preservation."... Andrew Gulliford, author of America's Country Schools.

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