Join us for a talk with author and Argyle-resident Elna Butterfield, who has written six books about growing up in rural Vermont in the 1940s. Elna's six book series is titled, My Times Remembered, Recollections of a 1940s Childhood in Vermont.
The snow date for this event is Thursday, February 1st.
An Excerpt from School Days
We walked to school. This was no badge of merit; it was an accepted fact. Rain or shine, snow or sleet, temperatures well below freezing with a crisp wind, it didn’t matter. We walked to school because that was the only way we’d get there. School was about a mile from home. School life in the 1940s was far from boring: Quill pens and penmanship. Slate blackboards and chalk. Wood stove and pottery water jug. Sledding and snowballs. Dinner pails and picnics. Rhythm band and pump organ. Teacher and the woodshed. This little book tells of these and so much more. These were my school days in a one-room schoolhouse in 1940s Vermont.
More information at www.battenkillbooks.com.
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