COUNTRY SCHOOLS

This is the last week before the first day of school for elementary and high school students in the area. To coincide with this event, the Friends of MPL are offering a program entitled "Country Schools" at 6 PM, September 10 in the Community Room of the library. Carolyn Adriaansen, Marion Town Historian, will be sharing her knowledge of area country schools of the past. You are all invited to attend. (We guarantee you'll enjoy Carolyn's presentation, delivered with her wonderful sense of humor.)

To get us in the mood, we looked for Bullis school books and found this one that was used in one of the country schools that Carolyn will be talking about:

Graded Literature Readers--Fifth Book

Published in 1900 by Charles E. Merrill Co. 

Edited by Harry Pratt Judson LLD, President of the University of Chicago and 

Ida C. Bender, Supervisor of Primary Grades in the Public Schools of Buffalo, New York

Among fifteen or so stories in this reader is the short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Old-Fashioned School" which is accompanied with this illustration:

Doesn't this make you thankful that you didn't live back in "those days"? Join us on September 10 for the "Country Schools" presentation--and find out what else we can be thankful for!