As I mentioned in yesterday's blog, I spent this past Friday afternoon (the Winter Solstice) wandering around the two "living history" farms surrounding the Littleton Museum, located in the heart of Littleton, Colorado (about 10 miles south of Denver). It is a very pretty place, and is adjacent to Ketring Lake. I took the photograph on the left of one of the tributaries that lead into this lake, which seems to have about 10,000 geese hanging out on it, even in late December. Once geese find a good spot to hang out, they never leave, and more and more show up every year, just like Californians - buying property here, driving up the cost of living for Coloradans.
But once again, I digress. While I was wandering the museum grounds, I also took a photograph of the one room schoolhouse where the children of these pioneers were educated. This particular one room schoolhouse was from the 1860s, and it would seem like schoolhouses like this are a relic of the past, but that is not true at all. The last time our University of Denver Bookstore gang got together, Jim - the husband of Chris, the former DU Bookstore Accounting Assistant - talked about how he was educated in just such a one room schoolhouse while growing up on a farm in Nebraska. Jim is now a successful bank executive, and so that might very well be an argument that such schoolhouses were actually a pretty good form of education. On the other hand, growing up in Nebraska is a big price to pay for it.
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