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Sometimes school, for all its/ •mental drudgery, meant respite from bodily toil. In a little backwoods shack at Knob Creek in his nafiVe Hardin County, Kentucky, Abraham Lincoln "learned to read and write, and cipher to the rule ,of three.”
The late Henry Ford rescued Redstone School, in Sterling, Mass., from its ignominious function as a garage and moved it tt his "Longfellow’s Wayside Inn” esjate at , South Sudbury, Mass. It now serves as a classroom for. 16 Sudbury grammar-school children.
Redstone, where Mary Sawyer’s little lamb "followed her to school one day”, inspired the poem, “Mary Had A Little Lamb."
Recently 206-year-old Quasset School in Woodstock, Conn., was dedicated as a permanent shrine. On the walls of Quasset’s single classroom are wooden pegs .for
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Lunch pail* and a water bucket with tin dipper sit on a shelf. A high stool and dunce cap, and . a slippery elm switch for malefactors have been preserved.
Dorchester, Mass, probably esr aablished the first “free” school-in the New World in 1639, and appropriated 20 pounds from public funds for teadier hire. The Pilgrim-children earlier had attended "classes outdoors or in private homes, with volunteer teachers.
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