Hawthorne School

@steven-patrick 73

7 days ago

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School

Hawthorne School in Bridport, Vermont circa 1864.

with Sign

This school has been restored and maintained beautifully even down to the rope to ring the school bell.

Sign

Apparently many older school houses had separate entrances for the boys and girls. They led into separate cloakrooms and the classroom was usually split with boys on one side and girls on the other. Same for the playground. Mostly this was just an attempt to keep order.

Eagle

We were out looking around for owls again and failed again 🙂 we did see a bald eagle. Awesome bird and close enough to remind us how big these birds get!

Owl

We were inspired by our nieghbor, the barred owl. It was out again across the road from our house. We have seen it (or likely seen several different owls) on many different occasions this winter.

with Field

We have been driving the open, snowy fields along Lake Champlain looking for Snowy Owls or Short Eared Owls. Both come around in the winter but we haven't had any luck yet this winter.

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6 comments

@goldenoakfarm 76

6 days ago

We have lots of bald eagles here due to a raptor rehabilitator that breeds them and gets the eaglets into local nests in the area. That's a cool old school. The thing that struck me was the construction date, one year before the end of the Civil War. I wondered where they got enough men to build it...

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@steven-patrick 73

6 days ago

Yeah that date is interesting. And Vermont sent alot of soldiers to the Civil War. Maybe older guys, women, built it or farmers that had exemptions. I don't even know if they gave exemptions to farmers back then... I know they did some in the later wars.

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