Cape church considering razing former one-room schoolhouse - Southeast Missourian

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Cape church considering razing former one-room schoolhouse Southeast Missourian The potbelly wood-burning stove. The bell Mrs. Medley would clang to drag them from a makeshift baseball field back to the classroom. More than five decades later, Gerald Kelpe's memories of his time at Hanover Lutheran School are vivid. and more »

Sports records are made to be broken ... except these - Evansville Courier & Press

Sports records are made to be broken ... except these Evansville Courier & Press He operated from an old white clapboard building that in winter — even in the early 1970s — was heated by a pot-belly stove. Countless homes and businesses were similarly warmed in a bygone era. Men huddled around such coal- and wood-fired stoves in ...

Erie men share their love for cooking - GoErie.com

Erie men share their love for cooking GoErie.com "Male cooks are tattooed, with pot bellies and have great-looking babes hanging around." Cooking, for men, has become as much about getting together as it is about the food itself. "When I was in college, I realized that girls liked guys who cooked," ... and more »

Local History: Westchester School memories vivid - New Philadelphia Times Reporter

Local History: Westchester School memories vivid New Philadelphia Times Reporter By Jon Baker When Dorothy Phillips Gardner moved from Toledo to West-chester in 1935, she went from attending a modern school that had indoor plumbing and electricity to a one-room school that had an outhouse and was heated by a pot-bellied stove.

Curiosity builds for Iron Hill's post-Civil War blacks - The News Journal

Curiosity builds for Iron Hill's post-Civil War blacks The News Journal It now has a school desk, exhibit case and pot belly stove. All are from the years when the wood-frame structure was a segregated one-room school. Another of du Pont's schools -- Hockessin Colored School 107, built in 1920 -- has been in the news of ...