Hickman County, Kentucky, One Room Schools
Author : LaDonna Latham
Publisher :
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,26 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN :
Author : LaDonna Latham
Publisher :
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,26 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 24,6 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Hickman County (Ky.)
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Author : William Lynwood Montell
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 37,34 MB
Release : 2011-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0813139503
This colorful collection of stories celebrates a fascinating aspect of Kentucky’s cultural heritage in “a fascinating look back at a bygone era” (Kentucky Monthly). In an educational era defined by large school campuses and overcrowded classrooms, it is easy to overlook the era of one-room schools, when teachers filled every role, including janitor, and provided a family-like atmosphere in which children also learned from one another. In Tales from Kentucky One-Room School Teachers, oral historian William Lynwood Montell reclaims an important part of Kentucky's social, cultural, and educational heritage, assembling a fascinating collection of schoolroom stories. The firsthand narratives and anecdotes in this collection cover topics such as teacher-student relationships, day-to-day activities, lunchtime foods, students' personal relationships, and, of course, the challenges of teaching in a one-room school. Montell includes tales about fund-raising pie suppers, pranks, outrageous student behavior—such as the quiet little boy whose first “sharing” involved profanity—and many other topics. Montell even includes some of his own memories from his days as a pupil in a one-room school.
Author : William Montell
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 32,21 MB
Release : 2001-09-21
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780813122274
The bestselling author of "Ghosts Across Kentucky" now presents an all-new collection of amazing ghost stories of the state.
Author : LaDonna Latham
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 14,88 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738566757
Hickman County was known to early French explorers as the "Iron Banks," to Chickasaw Indians as "the Dark and Bloody Land" or "the Happy Hunting Ground," to early settlers as "the Promised Land," and finally to one and all who live here as "God's Country" or "home." Organized in 1822, Hickman County was named for Capt. Paschal Hickman, a hero of the War of 1812. From gently rolling knolls, abrupt hills, and deep ravines, to the rich bottomlands next to the river, all can be found in this 225-square-mile county. Visitors and residents enjoy camping and touring the Civil War museum at the Columbus-Belmont State Park, the beautiful scenery from the bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River, hiking at Murphy's Pond, or walking back in history at the Hickman County Museum.
Author : Ellis F. Hartford
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,95 MB
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 0813184231
Few institutions have been held in such fond regard and recalled in such nostalgic terms as the little red schoolhouse. It ranks with the old oaken bucket, the little brown church in the vale, and the pictures of the old home place that millions of people have carried in that "inward eye" mentioned by Wordsworth on that long-past spring day. But the Kentucky common schoolhouses were not painted red as were those of New England; they were mostly white, if not of unpainted log construction. It was not the simple little boxlike schoolhouse itself that earned all that fond affection. What happened on the way to and from school, on the playground, and within the school walls are all treasured in the memory banks of former pupils in much the same manner as families recall their happy evenings around the fireside or those trips to grandmother's house for Thanksgiving. But the little white schoolhouse is gone, along with the simple agrarian way of life that characterized the people of the neighborhood to which it belonged. To ensure that this era of education is not forgotten Ellis F. Hartford has presented the history of one-room schoolhouses in the Commonwealth, showing what has been lost in the passing of this institution of the values that best characterized its time and place. Americans might well seek some of the same strengths and values in their diverse communities that were enjoyed by our ancestors of the old rural-agrarian way of life. We might also strive to obtain schools that fit and belong to their respective communities as did the little white schoolhouse.
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Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,54 MB
Release : 1995-12
Category : Fulton County (Ky.)
ISBN : 1563111977
Author : George G. Humphreys
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 17,85 MB
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0813182344
This in-depth study offers a new examination of a region that is often overlooked in political histories of the Bluegrass State. George G. Humphreys traces the arc of politics and the economy in western Kentucky from avid support of the Democratic Party to its present-day Republican identity. He demonstrates that, despite its relative geographic isolation, the region west of the eastern boundary of Hancock, Ohio, Butler, Warren, and Simpson Counties to the Mississippi River played significant roles in state and national politics during the New Deal and postwar eras. Drawing on extensive archival research and oral history interviews, Humphreys explores the area's political transformation from a solid Democratic voting bloc to a conservative stronghold by examining how developments such as advances in agriculture, the diversification of the economy, and the civil rights movement affected the region. Addressing notable deficiencies in the existing literature, this impressively researched study will leave readers with a deeper understanding of post-1945 Kentucky politics.
Author : United Daughters of the Confederacy
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 23,82 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Confederate States of America
ISBN : 1563115301
Author : Sandra Kaye Laughery Gorin
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 25,74 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Barren County (Ky.)
ISBN :