This is a website about the Iowa county schools preservation. There are lists of schools that can be visited and I'm sure Bill Sherman would be interested in the stories. Pat http://www.iowapreservation.org/schools.php

I have read the Country School memories posted on this List with much anticipation. It has all been so interesting. I attended country school in Plymouth Co. IA from 1953-1960, after 1960 I went to the highschool in a nearby town. I loved every minute of my school daze! My Mother and my Grandmother were both Plymouth Co. rural school teachers just after highschool graduation. On the Plymouth Co. IA GenWeb site, I have dedicated many pages to the history of rural country school and the teachers. See this most recent page on which I posted the cyclone photo today. This was a Remsen, Iowa, school house building in the aftermath of a cyclone which wiped out the town in June 1885. Enjoy both links. http://iagenweb.org/plymouth/Schools/Remsentwpschoolnews.html http://iagenweb.org/plymouth/Cities/remsengermania.html Linda Ziemann IA GenWeb Plymouth, Monona, Sioux County Coordinator http://iagenweb.org/ Iowa Old Press IAGenWeb Special Project Co-Coordinator http://www.iowaoldpress.com/index.html "A Look Back at the Lives and Times of Our Ancestors" N.D. GenWeb, Mercer Co. Coordinator (My hubby's home county) http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ndmercer/