The Dick Schoolhouse

Meghan and I were geocaching today, and hit a cache near Ethan's karate studio: The Dick Schoolhouse.

Did it always sit built into the bank so close to the road?

We had fun imagining the kids who must have lined up at this doorway (Meghan has just finished yelling, "RECESS" at the top of her lungs in the bottom picture), had their lunch in the grass, and washed their lunch buckets out in the spring that runs by. We wondered what they would make of us in our modern clothes, with cars zooming nearby.

The stream was freezing, even on a 80' day.

Ok, I don't know if there were lunch buckets, but they must have carried their lunch in something. Off to Google I go. Now, there's something those kids couldn't have imagined about the future!

Several neat links I found whilst looking for information on lunchboxes:

http://www.ushist.com/school_house_supplies_toys_f.shtml

http://www.senecaschoolhouse.com/

http://www.foodmuseum.com/exhbitschoollunch.html

http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodschools.html