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Wednesday Dec 28, 2022
Wednesday Dec 28, 2022
One-room schoolhouses. They represented a simpler time in Connecticut’s educational system. But forget about “the three R’s.” There were more fundamental hurdles in the 1700s: no outhouses, poor ventilation and lighting, no insulation, and no drinking well. Additionally, girls had to be careful not to expose their ankles under their skirts, and students had to carry firewood from home, or else. Still, they served us for 200 years; the last one closed in 1967. Hear from the expert on one-room Schoolhouses, Southbury Historical Society Director Melinda Elliott.
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