“If our lunch needed to be heated up we would heat it on the lip of the coal furnace in the basement.”

By Herb Hopen | Madison, WI

Herb Hopen of Madison discusses his experience in a one-room school in Pleasant Springs, Wisconsin. The school served 18 farm homes.

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