This column reminisces about a family-connected one-room schoolhouse in the U.P.
Excerpt: Longrie School is nestled among pine trees near the corner of County Road 352 and Palmer Road, so named because my grandfather, Albert Palmer, and his brother, Henry, were the first to settle farms there in the early 1900s.
Part of “cutover country,” their farmsteads stood atop long sweeping hills across the road from the railroad tracks. Mom and Uncle Ed often walked the mile or so to school on those tracks.
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Source: Battle Creek Enquirer
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