At Home in the Huddle 2: wednesday

TRASH PICKUP

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FARMER'S MARKET
in the Park this afternoon.

It's a sunny but shivery 45.9 degrees.

Today: A mix of sun and clouds. A slight risk of a brief early shower south of U.S. Route 20. Pleasant. High in the mid 70s.
Tonight: Partly cloudy to mainly clear. Low in the mid to upper 50s.
Thursday: Mostly sunny and warmer. High: 83, Low: 61

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This is what Lynn Curtis had spotted:

What a good sign it is!

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Tomorrow!

Did you know that this little stone building at the foot of Bogan Road was once a schoolhouse?

One of the many who taught there was Kate Loftus Welch.

"My days at the stone schoolhouse were filled to overflowing, a constant muster of all my resouces, the training of thirty-five pupils of five or six grades. Her contract had read, "Miss Loftus, You may have the position of teacher of our district school at $3.30 per week." Later on, she became one of the area's most well-known writers for her weekly column in The Waterville Times.

I, personally, don't believe that teaching has ever been an easy thing to do!

In Abner Livermore's 1851 "Recollections of Sangerfield," he described teaching in The Huddle back in the early 1800s.

"More than one hundred names from four or five to four or five and twenty years of age in a small school house. (The house stood a little west of the meeting house and is now, 1886, the home of Mrs. Barton). The management of this school was the hardest winter's work I ever did. I did not have the pleasure of knowing they had improved in education as well as when I had taught in Terrytown, in Whitestown, in Paris (Capts. Simon Hubbard's district,) as each of the others had in my opinion done better than this Huddle school."

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