More Pioneer Village Snapshots

These are some of the buildings at the pioneer village. The top photo is of a combination Post Office and grocery store; the second photo is an equipment and implement shed; and the lower photo is of "the Little Red schoolhouse." The yellow building is named not, obviously, for its color, but for the area from whence the school house came. The docent of this building gave a very interesting talk about the building's history, and about the strict rules that teachers at the school had to abide by. As usual, males and females were not treated evenhandedly. For instance, the men were allowed to date one day a week, or two days, if they faithfully attended church. Women, on the other hand, were strictly forbidden to date. All grades, of course, were taught in the same room, with varying sizes of desks accommodating the age groups. I spent my first year of school in a one-room school house, and I remember the teacher going from group to group, working with the students. While the teacher was occupied with one group, the others studied and practiced their writing or arithmetic skills.