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Midwest Country School Preservation Conference LongIowa Grove, 52756 18817 Street 290th Village Pioneer Grove Walnut Dan Nagle Midwest A Poetic Tribute to School Preservation Country School Learning Spaces for Living Well agriculture, civics and industry, all for Forest Grove School #5 valuable lessons that changed lifelong Preservation learning to well-done. I live on well-traveled Forest Grove Road in Sledding in winter excited recess as did Scott County, Iowa, Pleasant Valley Township. the Great Stride in the fall and spring Conference My early white paint weathered to gray and is when my students became airborne ten white again. Now I stand proud on the high, feet high on centrifugal force as they October 14-15, 2016 fertile prairie with my well-rung bell polished grasped chains hanging from a pole and and poised inside my bell tower to sound the ran faster and faster around it to take call from this one-room country school turned wing. educational museum. After a recess of many decades, it’s time to show my new concrete block foundation and poured basement, my new front door, my three new windows on each side and two in front, my new chimney, and my new cedar shake shingles. I am familiar as an old oak tree waving its brightest leaves in the breeze and spreading its strongest roots deep into the Midwestern soil. My growing health shows in remembered spaces. My round ceiling curves with aesthetics again as does the outside curved cover over the capital letters of my name. Hosted by I remember a kerosene fixture provided light, More rehabilitated than original, I am Friends of Walnut Grove Pioneer Village and a big, barrel-shaped, black coal furnace still an old-fashioned American who Scott County Iowa Conservation spread heat. In the morning, students set wants to start school reciting The their potatoes on top so they’d be ready by Pledge of Allegiance, singing The Star- lunch. Spangled Banner and hearing civil Conference Location tongues throughout the day as my Good, solid teaching does things to students Scott County Park teacher teaches, and my older students and potatoes. No fast dip in temperature or help younger ones so everyone here can Whispering Pines Shelter serious drop in content inside these walls. grow and perform well in this life with a Reading, writing, arithmetic and spelling 18850 270th St positive report card far exceeds all remain staples, while additions include requirements. Eldridge, IA 52748 geography, history, music, grammar, hygiene, -Dick and Helen Stahl Conference Sponsors: Preservation Iowa, Landmarks Illinois, Scott County Conservation Board, Silos & Smokestacks Registration Form (One form per person) I would like to sign up for: Preserving American Icons Saturday Oct 15, 2016 Friday Meeting $15.00 Includes Lunch Friday Oct 14, 2016 Creating a County-Wide Country School A g e n d a Friday Dinner $14.00 Map, Ruby Ferris 8:30—11:30 Bus Tour of area sites A g e n d a and Program 8:30 AM—Registration / Refreshments Developing a Blog, Glen Chatfield, North 8:30: Load bus at Buffalo Bill Museum park- Saturday Tour $21.00 Liberty ing lot, 199 North Front Street, LeClaire, IA 9:00 AM—Group Pledge of Allegiance Includes bus ride & lunch. Separate fee of $4.00 to tour Buffalo Bill Museum. followed by Conference Overview with Bill Developing an Online Database, Sandra 8:40: Pleasant Hill School, Territorial Road Sherman Host, Council Bluffs LeClaire, Iowa Total Fee Enclosed: $___________________ 9:20 AM—School Research: Making Poetic Impressions, Dick Stahl 9:30 AM - Davenport #9, Mississippi Valley Assumptions and Digging In, Deborah 2:00 PM—Producing an online country Fairgrounds Name Leistikow, Walnut Grove Butler # 2 school county history, Muscatine County/ Iowa Gen Web 9:40 AM—Rural vs. Urban: Debating Address Education Equality, Allison Coe & Laura Becoming Part of the Silos & Smokestacks Klever Network Laura Elfers, Waterloo City, State, Zip 10:00 AM—The Country School in a Village 2:45 PM—Country School Association of Phone Setting, Heritage Canyon, Fulton, IL America Update 10:20 AM Kate Martin, Center for Rural 3:30 PM—Tour Walnut Grove Pioneer Email address Schools, UNI Village, 18817 290th St., Long Grove, IA Email confirmation sent upon receipt of registration & check. 10:45 AM—Lessons Learned: Preserving followed by coffee & presenter Q & A at Send form and check to: Country Schools Gary Johnson, Des Moines St. Ann Catholic Church, 16550 290th St. County Long Grove, IA Friends of Walnut Grove Pioneer Village The Long Road Home for Forest Grove #5, 6:00 PM—Catered dinner at St. Ann 10:45 AM – Forest Grove #5, Pleasant Valley 18817 290th Street Catholic Church (see address above) Long Grove, IA 52756 Sharon Andresen, Scott County 12:00 PM – Lunch at Bierstube, LeClaire, IA 11:45 AM—Preservation Iowa Country After dinner entertainment: Bus will deliver us to Buffalo Bill Museum after lunch A block of hotel rooms are reserved for School Preservation Grant Caleb Giesel a reduced rate at Holiday Inn Express, “Class of Walnut Grove ’21-’22” Skit by 1:00 PM – Buffalo Bill Museum, LeClaire, IA 12:00 PM—LUNCH Lincoln-Sheridan 4-H Club, and Buffalo Bill LeClaire, IA (563) 289-9978. Mention Program 2:00 PM – Enjoy historic LeClaire, IA “One-Room School” when you call to re- 12:45 PM—Promotional Tools for Country ceive $93.00 river view rooms or $83.00 Schools Questions? Call Pioneer Village at 563-328-3283 for a non-river view room. Rooms are on or [email protected] or Bill a first-come basis. Sherman 515-278-2242, [email protected] .
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