Pictured is Alena Mentink acting like a old-fashioned teacher in the one-room school at the Polk County Museum. Photo provided.
Several local homeschool families gathered at the old school house that is part of the Historical Society Museum in Osceola this month. Alena Mentink dressed up in an old-fashioned prairie dress and led the kids in a short school day. She shared some of the history from the old, one room school houses in Polk County. We found it interesting that the first school house was dug into the side of a...
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