education in Appalachia Archives - Page 3 of 5

We thought a switch was good for everything but the toothache — part 2

Daintry Allison was 25 years old in 1921, when these photos of McDowell County schools were taken. Her school would’ve looked quite similar.

“Five miles out from Old Fort, up near Catawba Falls,” said Daintry Allison. “That was my 1st school. No teacher ever stayed there 5 months.”

The book provides excellent examples for courses primarily in literature, but also in history, film, folklife and cultural studies.

Matt Ravenscroft inspires students to document their town/regional history in his Historical Methods Research class.

Children at school in 1925 would have used an inkwell similar to the one shown here, from the collection of the Cherokee County [GA] Archives.