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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 371.09776
EAN: 9780873515481
Edition: 1
ISBN: 087351548X
Label: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Manufacturer: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: September 01, 2006
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Studio: Minnesota Historical Society Press



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On the flat windy prairie,
The only thing not moving
Was a small red schoolhouse.
So opens Schoolhouses of Minnesota, a magical foray into the nearly forgotten world of one-acre school grounds, kerosene lanterns, coal-burning stoves, and old desks that eventually had sixty years’ worth of initials scraped into them. In the fourth book in his popular Minnesota Byways series, photographer Doug Ohman once again treats readers to the fruits of his state travels —including a trip to Minnesota’s last remaining one-room schoolhouse in Angle Inlet—with 120 color photographs that illuminate the simple, often abandoned, sometimes refurbished, and nearly vanishing Minnesota pioneer and early schoolhouses.
Bridging the past with the present, critically acclaimed writer Jim Heynen complements Ohman’s images with twenty-five beautifully crafted tales on the evolution of lunch pails, the consolidation of rural schools, profiles of bullies and teachers’ pets, and the timeless wish of schoolchildren of all generations—school closing on “snow days”! Heynen, who learned to read and write in a one-room schoolhouse, uses his trademark wit and down-to-earth style to bring back memories of the early days of Minnesota education, taught by hundreds of rural teachers across the state to thousands of farm and town kids alike.



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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A fitting memorial to those vintage Minnesota schoolhouses
With an informative introduction and minimal image captioning by Jim Heynen, "Schoolhouses Of Minnesota" is a compendium of beautifully illustrated, full-color photography by Dough Ohman showcasing and highlighting 19th century and early 20th century school buildings in Minnesota. A fitting memorial to those vintage Minnesota schoolhouses that served to educate a rural population, these photographs take on an almost poetic and most certainly iconic quality as the reader browses from page to page. ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - An ok book
I ordered this as a gift for a teacher, I looked through it. It did have
some cute things in it and for the price I threw it in with another book.






 






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