One-Room Country Schools: History and Recollections

by Jerry Apps

Overview

A popular collection of memories and recollections from people who learned at and taught in one-room schools in Wisconsin, including former pupil Jerry Apps, the book’s author.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780870207525
Publisher:	Wisconsin Historical Society
Publication date:	11/23/2015
Pages:	248
Sales rank:	268,927
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Jerry Apps was born and raised on a central Wisconsin farm. He is a former county extension agent and professor emeritus for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Today he works as a rural historian, full-time writer, and creative writing instructor.

Jerry is the author of more than forty fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books with topics ranging from barns, one-room schools, cranberries, cucumbers, cheese factories, and the humor of mid-America to farming with horses and the Ringling Brothers circus. He and his wife, Ruth, have three grown children, seven grandchildren, and one great-grandson. They divide their time between their home in Madison and their farm, Roshara, in Waushara County.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

1 Memories 1

2 Early History 9

3 The Teachers 25

4 Preparing and Supporting the Teachers 41

5 All in a Day 57

6 Lessons That Were Learned 69

7 School of the Air 89

8 Here Comes Santa Glaus 99

9 Recess 111

10 Softball 121

11 Up Hill Both Ways 129

12 Beyond the School Room 139

13 Selected Schools 147

14 Modern Day One-Room Schools 165

15 Consolidation 175

16 Learning from the Past 191

Appendix A Recess Games 201

Appendix B School Museums 209

Index of Schools 218

Index 220

Acknowledgments 229