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Presents Roger DeWitt Artist of the Historical Midwest |
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Late to School
The StoryUp the road from us is the “Old Red School House.” There were thousands of this wonderful one-room schools built to educate our young in the early 19th century and there are a few still in use today. As urbanization and “bigger is better” took over these school houses were abandoned for larger more modern facilities. My wife’s grandmother, who lived to be nearly 107 and began her teaching career in 1918 and spent many years teaching in one-room schoolhouses—including this one. Because she was married she was not allowed to teach in town. She told of driving horse and buggy to school down a mud road we now call Illinois Route 16, stoking the stove, doing her own janitor work and then teaching 8 grades. Roger DeWitt, Artist
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