One Room School On the Palouse

Spent many hours wandering about the Palouse in eastern Washington. A few nights ago I came across an old building nestled in some trees. I thought is was an old farmhouse. But, it was not. I was a turn of the century one room school. What a find! Imagine what it must have been like back then. In the fall weeks after harvest and just as the field were finished being seeded with winter wheat the children would be back in school. School, then, as now had a purpose and had its pleasures. For the children one of the pleasures would have been seeing other children every day.