Attending a One-Room School in the 1930s
Posted by William Cornell on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Attending a One-Room School in the 1930s In the midst of the economic depression of the 1930s, my father, Hal Cornell, was a “furloughed” railroad locomotive foreman living with his wife and five school-aged children in a ten-dollar-a-month rented house in Burrell Township, adjacent to Blairsville, in Indiana County. During two school years, my three brothers, a sister, and I attended the one-room...read more
