History 21 The Podcast - 6.13 Ramsey School District 28
Students attended school at Ramsey’s District 28 schoolhouse for over 50 years before it started a new life as the Ramsey Town Hall. The yellow-brick building, built in 1892, stands strong as cars drive past along St. Francis Blvd. Learn about this National Register Property, and keep an eye out as the City of Ramsey begins to refresh the building in the near future.
Join hosts Sara Given, ACHS Volunteer Coordinator, and Rebecca Desens, ACHS Executive Director, as they share this intriguing story.
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Ramsey School District 28
Soon the Ramsey School District No. 28 will get a refresh! The City of Ramsey received a $39,500 grant to complete at ADA ramp, heating and air conditioning system, and ADA compliant historic period bathroom for the building.
Read more about the project in the local UnionHerald Newspaper article
Library Minute
Check out these titles about school then and now!
Nonfiction
School around the world by Mary Meinking (E370 MEI)
School in pioneer times by Kerry A. Graves (Libby eBook)
Schoolhouses of Minnesota by Doug Ohman (371.09776 SCH)
They called me teacher: stories of Minnesota country school teachers and students, 1915-1960 by Tom Melchior (371.1 MEL)
Substitute: going to school with a thousand kids by Nicholson Baker (371.14 BAK; Libby eBook; eAudiobook)
Kid Quixotes: a group of students, their teacher, and the one-room school where everything is possible Stephen Haff (920 HAF)
The water is wide by Pat Conroy (Libby eBook; Libby eAudiobook)
Fiction
The whistling season by Ivan Doig (FICTION DOI)
The Amish schoolteacher: a romance by Jerry S Eicher (FICTION EIC)
Christy by Catherine Marshall (FICTION MAR; Libby)
The secret school by Avi (J FICTION AVI, Libby eBook; Libby eAudiobook)
Audio/Video
Christy: the complete series (DVD CHR)
The water is wide (DVD WAT)
When calls the heart. [Season 1, Movie 1], Lost & found (DVD WHE)
American Teacher (DVD344.078 AME; Kanopy)