by J. Mack Dent

“South Georgia One-Room Schoolhouse in 1899”

Signed art reproduction••• Edition Size: 16" x 20"

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The building was a plain unpainted board house that had been used as a residence. The chimney had fallen down and the opening was turned into a door seven feet wide. One teacher with thirty seven children ranging in age from 3 to 16 in one small room with a potbellied stove and no air conditioning taught “readin’, ritin’ and rithmetic” for three to four months a year when the farm work was less demanding. Clothes were homemade from flour sacks and the younger children were barefooted. There was a determination to overcome hardships many of us today, unfortunately, do not understand. It is where many of us trace our ancestors. After attempting with no success to have an old faded and bent daguerreotype restored, I turned to the computer to “uncover” the mysteries behind the barely discernible features. Since my grandfather is the teacher, I had other sources to check him out. I had to draw it. Their faces haunted me.