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"Vergennes Schoolhouse at the Shelburne Museum The Schoolhouse is an exhibit building at Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont. It was originally located in Vergennes, Vermont. History The town of Vergennes, Vermont built the schoolhouse about 1840 on land leased from General Samuel Strong, an American Revolutionary War officer and descendant of one of Addison County’s first families. In the terms of the lease Strong stipulated that the town pay him an annual rent of one kernel of Indian corn and use the property for educational purposes.Shelburne Museum. 1993. Shelburne Museum: A Guide to the Collections. Shelburne: Shelburne Museum, Inc. The schoolhouse, although built at the height of Greek Revival’s popularity, reflects an amalgamation of architectural styling. Moderate classical elements include the arched door, sash windows, and projecting bell tower, while the split-gable and octagonal shape of the bell tower’s cupola reflect 19th-century Eclecticism that developed as local builders and craftsmen freely combined elements from different architectural styles. On the exterior, the bricklayer ornamented the one-room structure with a simple patterning of six rows of stretchers (horizontally-laid bricks) and one row of headers (end-laid bricks) that formed subtle bands circling the building. Relocation When the Shelburne Museum relocated the Schoolhouse to its present site in 1947, the structure had been in disuse for many years. In preparation for the building’s restoration, the Museum created architectural drawings of the building’s exterior before removing the belfry and dismantling the brickwork piece-by- piece. The Museum replaced the original tinwork of the belfry’s dome with stronger copper, repaired its acorn finial, replaced missing windows, resurfaced the plastered interior walls, and re-hung the bell. The inclusion of desks, benches, and maps reflect the modest furnishings of a 19th-century rural school. One-Room Schoolhouse One-room schools were commonplace throughout rural portions of the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In most rural (country) and small town schools, all of the students met in a single room. There, a single teacher taught academic basics to five to eight grade levels of elementary-age boys and girls. For more information see One-room school School in the 19th century The early school room was about 20 feet square with a huge fireplace in the front. Later heat was supplied by an iron wood stove. Two privies were out back, one for the boys and one for the girls. Drinking water was ladled out of a wooden pail. The buildings were dark and often dirty, with no insulation to keep out the winter cold. There were no playgrounds and often no shade. There were few text books. Children used slates and a Bible as school supplies.Shelburne Museum. "The Addison Country Spelling Bee" School Program. 2009. Seats were often arranged with the smallest in the front and the tallest in the back so the teacher could see each head. Schools were only open a few months a year and consisted of winter and summer sessions (usually December–March and then mid-May to August). The older boys were usually working in the fields during the summer, so they only attended in the winter. Men predominated as teachers until the early 19th century, but by the mid-19th century most teachers were women. Women could be teachers only if they were unmarried; as soon as they married, another teacher was hired. Women were paid half the salaries as men. Students ranged in age from 4 or 5 to 21 and sometimes toddlers went to school with older siblings who were caregivers. In 1870 in Vermont the average cost to educate one student was $13.60 per year. Grading did not exist. Curriculum consisted of the fundamentals of reading, spelling, writing, and calculating. Students recited the alphabet, the definitions of spelling words, the rules of grammar, arithmetic facts, and long prose passages. Few students went beyond the fundamentals taught in the one-room schoolhouse. Teachers were themselves often 14 or 15 years old with no advanced training. Correct conduct was considered the most important part of a student’s education. Boys entered the school room, took off their hats, and bowed to the teacher and others. On leaving school they would bow again. Girls would enter, bow or curtsey, and repeat on leaving. See also *Shelburne Museum *General Samuel Strong House *One-room school *Vergennes, Vermont References *Hill, Ralph Nading and Lilian Baker Carlisle. The Story of The Shelburne Museum. 1955. *Shelburne Museum. 1993. Shelburne Museum: A Guide to the Collections. Shelburne: Shelburne Museum, Inc. *Shelburne Museum Schoolhouse Category:Shelburne Museum Category:Schoolhouses in the United States Category:Education museums in the United States Category:Relocated buildings and structures in Vermont "
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"Abbie Huston Evans (20 December 1881 – October 1983) was an American poet and teacher. Life Her father, Bard Lewis Darenydd Evans, immigrated to the United States from Wales. He labored as a coal miner, until he was accepted for college. He studied two years at Western Reserve University, and graduated from Bangor Theological Seminary. Abbie Evans was born in Lee, New Hampshire, and graduated from Radcliffe College with a B.A. (1913, Phi Beta Kappa) and M.A. (1918). She was six years older than the rest of her class, where she studied with Odell Shepard. She went to France during World War I, then came home to work as a social worker to coal miners in Colorado and Pittsburgh. She later taught at the Settlement Music School in Philadelphia from 1923 to 1953. She lived at 414 Queen Street in Philadelphia. Then she taught at College Settlement Farm-Camp in Horsham, Pennsylvania from 1953 to 1957. She summer vacationed at the Maine coast. Edna St. Vincent Millay was a friend from Sunday school, and wrote an introduction to Outcrop. Margaret Marshall, at Harcourt, Brace was her friend, and poetry editor. Louise Bogan accepted Abbie’s poems for The New Yorker. She received an honorary degree from Bowdoin College, in 1961, Her poems appeared in The Nation, The New Yorker,https://www.newyorker.com/search/query?queryType=nonparsed&query;=&bylquery;=Abbie+Huston+Evans&page;=&sort;=&submit.x;=32&submit.y;=5 and Poetry. She recorded for the Library of Congress in 1964. Her letters with Odell Shepard are at the University of Delaware. Barbara Lachman was working on a biography. Awards * 1931 Guarantor's Prize (Poetry, Chicago) * 1960 Loines Memorial Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters * 1962 Fact of Crystal won a National Book Award * 1965 New England Poetry Club Golden Rose Award Works * References External links * "On the Life and Poetry of Abbie Huston Evans, 1881–1983" * "The Life and Poetry of Abbie Huston Evans", Carl Little, The Massachusetts Review, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Summer, 1988), pp. 247-261 * "Abbie Huston Evans Re-collected", January 29, 2006, The Red Hibiscus * "Copyright renewal for Outcrop, 1955" Category:1881 births Category:1983 deaths Category:Radcliffe College alumni Category:20th- century American poets Category:American women poets Category:20th-century American women writers Category:American centenarians Category:People from Lee, New Hampshire Category:Women centenarians "