Downeast Schoolhouse » distant past http://downeastschoolhouse.com Education, bread, music, orneriness. In monstrous slabs. Irony in wee drams. Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:35:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Your Little Friend the Fifth Grade Book http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2008/09/your-little-friend-the-fifth-grade-book/ http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2008/09/your-little-friend-the-fifth-grade-book/#comments Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:00:04 +0000 admin http://downeastschoolhouse.com/?p=474 A remarkable find: a collection of short — very short — stories written by fifth graders at various schools in Buffalo, New York, and published in book form in 1931.

Here’s the introduction:

Dear Fifth Graders:

How do you do! I am the little book that you have made. I have many little stories. [...]]]> http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2008/09/your-little-friend-the-fifth-grade-book/feed/ 0 “Schools do not open until the potatoes are harvested.” http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2008/09/schools-do-not-open/ http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2008/09/schools-do-not-open/#comments Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:00:56 +0000 admin http://downeastschoolhouse.com/?p=356

Click on the photo to enlarge.

From American Memory at the Library of Congress, this photo was taken by the great Jack Delano in 1940, as part of a Farm Security Administration project.

The original caption was:

Children gathering potatoes on a large farm, vicinity of Caribou, Aroostook County, Me. Schools do not open [...]]]> http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2008/09/schools-do-not-open/feed/ 0