Life in a One-Room Schoolhouse at the Historical Museum

On Sunday, June 5, at 3 p.m., Susan Webb will present “School Days with the Traveling Schoolmarm: A Chronicle of American Country School Images, Artifacts, Recitations, and Adventures” at the Norfolk Historical Museum.

For the past 20 years, the Norfolk Historical Society has been hosting Webb’s presentations for children at Botelle School. She spends the day with fifth graders at Norfolk’s Little Red School House on Ashpohtag Road, teaching them about what school was like in the days of the one-room schoolhouse. Her program on June 5 has been designed for adults.

Webb is a former teacher and current historical researcher of early American education. She conducts programs for the National Trust Humanities Speakers Bureau and for various national organizations, educational institutions, libraries and civic gatherings across the country. Her two decades of research have prompted her to develop her entertaining, unique, yet informative historical presentations.

The Norfolk Historical Museum is located at 13 Village Green.

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