Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 10:10:47 -0500 Message-ID: <CAOqvhe2_YqhkWV_6r6JRPPaf9Ugz-sc+2LFTdCAuo=q6iiottw@mail.gmail.com> Subject: PRESS RELEASE: One-room rural schools topic of presentation at Iola Historical Society Aug. 23 From: "onthelake2 tds.net" <onthelake2@tds.net>
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*Daily life in Waupaca County’s historic one-room schoolhouses expl
ored at
Iola Historical Society*
Today’s school children have it made compared to what children endu
red 100
years ago in one-room schoolhouses, which dotted Waupaca County.
Joan Paulson and Don Hansen, co-editors of *Country Schools of Waupaca
County*, will be making a presentation about school life in country schools
of Waupaca County, with an emphasis of rural Iola schools, on Saturday,
August 23, 2014, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Their presentation takes place
in the replica vintage one-room schoolhouse at the Iola Historical
Society’s village complex on Depot Street east of Main Street in Io
la.
Question and answer session will follow the presentation. The replica
school house has an extensive display of pictures of vintage Iola area
schools.
The presentation is free and open to the public. The Iola Historical
Society’s village and museum will be open from Noon until 3:00 p.m.
It is
open on Saturdays from June to the end of August.
Local resident and former teacher Joan Paulson did attend grades 1-8 at the
Dow School, located at Highway 161 and County Trunk E, just east of Iola
–
one of many such schools that dot Waupaca County.
“I did not teach in a rural school, but had a family of relatives w
ho did
at one time in their lives. When I went to school in Stevens Point, there
was still a rural school department there. I believe it was a good one,
“she recalled.
In addition to the schoolhouse, the historic village area also
includes including
the Iola & Northern Railway depot, which is undergoing restoration to its
original design. The other buildings include a 1930s log cabin used in the
area by hunters; the original Helvetia Town Hall; The Machine Shed, filled
with vintage farm and manufacturing equipment; and the historical society
’s
museum, which was recently updated with new display cases for exhibits of
local history.
The Historic Iola Village buildings will be open for visitors. While there
is no charge to explore the area, free-will donations are accepted.
The historical society’s next major event is Taste of Norway & Lost
Arts
Fair, held at the historic village complex on Saturday, Oct.4.
For more information, go to www.iolahistoricalsociety.org or
www.ischamber.com.
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