Are you looking for the Perfect Unique gift for your history loving loved one from North Grenville? Take a look! Please (and thank you!) Like and Share! Article for North Grenville Times of December 3, 2014: The North Grenville Historical Society Schools’ Book Project is at the printer. School Days Past Looking back more than 200 years to the first decade of the 19th century School Days Past chronicles the history of the schools of North Grenville as played out in the log, stone, clapboard and brick schools of Clothier’s Mill, Kemptville, South Gower and Oxford-on-Rideau. The story reaches back to our first school at Heck’s Corner in 1808 and to the other schools of the mid and late 19th century; including Kemptville’s classic brick 1873 Public and 1888 High School that were consumed by fires in early 1936. Rising phoenix-like, a new combined Kemptville Public and High School was opened late in 1936. For Oxford-on-Rideau and South Gower, it was just 50 years ago in 1964 and 1965 that the final 16 pioneer era schools closed. But what a story the previous 157 years reveal, as illustrated in School Days Past with memories, mementoes and memorabilia. Included are wonderful contemporary photographs by the North Grenville Photography Club of those pioneer era schools that have weathered the actions of climate and man to exist today. To illustrate the life of school children, hundreds of rare and historic photographs (many recently acquired from private collections) some dating back to the 1880s, have been selected. Add to this - original documents and letters, some not seen in North Grenville in 160 years; school registers from the early 20th century to 1964/65; plus objects gathered from pioneer era schools. All give this book visual impact. Of special interest are the memories of school days past written by former students, some of whom are now in their sixties, seventies, eighties or nineties - memories that have not dimmed with the passing years. From the thousands of children who went on to successful lives after being educated in our schools, friends, families or admirers have stepped up to recommend or write biographies of more than 2 dozen women and men who “have made a difference”. The book is a tribute to the pioneering families, the school children, teachers, trustees and all who built, worked and studied in our schools. The facts of historical documentation, the truth of photography and the warmth of memory are woven together in School Days Past. School Days Past will be available for sale by the middle of December. Details to follow. Doug MacDonald 158 people reached
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