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Feb 9, 2017
Teenagers Who Vandalized Historic Black Schoolhouse Are Ordered to Read Books
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(NYTimes) After five teenagers defaced a historic black schoolhouse in Virginia with racist and anti-Semitic graffiti last year, a judge h...
Jan 7, 2012
Colora: The breezy ridge of Cecil County
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(Cecil Whig) Vast and many have been the unique pronunciations of Colora but few are they who can, with any certain knowledge, define how th...
Dec 24, 2011
Johns Hopkins: His death and his philanthropy
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(Wikipedia) ... Johns Hopkins died without heirs on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1873. He left $7 million, mostly in Baltimore & Ohio Rai...
Oct 30, 2011
Dame Schools
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(Wikipedia) A Dame School was an early form of a private elementary school in English-speaking countries. They were usually taught by women ...
Apr 11, 2011
Hosanna School's 144th anniversary
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(TheRecord) The celebration of the 144th anniversary of the Hosanna School in Darlington had a distinctly Havre de Grace flavor. Harford C...
Nov 17, 2010
One-Room Schoolhouse Near Sylmar Razed
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(WoCCP) While Cecil County once had dozens of one-room schoolhouses serving rural areas and small villages, many of these structures have di...
Jun 15, 2010
Cokesbury Memorial UMC to Celebrate College's 225th Anniversary
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(Talking about Abingdon, MD) Cokesbury Memorial United Methodist Church is gearing up to celebrate the 225th anniversary of Cokesbury Colle...
May 19, 2010
Mr. Johns Hopkins
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(LoC) Johns Hopkins was born on May 19, 1795, in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, to a Quaker family. Convinced that slavery was morally wrong...
Apr 21, 2010
Thomas Wyatt Turner
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(Wikipedia) Thomas Wyatt Turner (March 16, 1877 – April 21, 1978) was an American civil rights activist, biologist and educator. Born in Hug...
Apr 1, 2010
April Fool!
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(LoC) April the 1st was dreaded by most rural school teachers. The pupils would get inside and bar the teacher out. The teacher, who didn...
Feb 10, 2010
Ira Remsen: The Chemistry Was Right
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(JHU Gazette) Ira Remsen was born Feb. 10, 1846, in New York City, of Dutch and Huguenot ancestry. Following education in the public schools...
Feb 6, 2010
The Schoolhouse Blizzard
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(Wikipedia) The Schoolhouse Blizzard, also known as the Schoolchildren's Blizzard or the Children's Blizzard, hit the U.S. plains st...
Jan 14, 2010
Black Schools Restored as Landmarks
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (NYTimes) - Until 1923, the only school in the largely black farm settlement of Pine Grove was the one hand-built by parents,...
Jan 9, 2010
Earl G. Graves, Sr.
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(Wikipedia) Earl Gilbert Graves, Sr. (born January 9, 1935) is an American author, publisher, entrepreneur, philanthropist and founder of Bl...
Nov 30, 2009
Landmark status argued for carriage house
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(Baltimore Sun) The 19th-century Farmlands Carriage House in Catonsville is at the center of a tug-of-war between pressing school needs and ...
Nov 18, 2009
Education pioneer Williams dies
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(Aegis) ... Dr. Williams was one of 10 children of the late Hattie Brown and Vandellia Armitage Williams, a sharecropping farmer whose famil...
Oct 10, 2009
Anchors Aweigh!
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(LoC) On October 10, 1845, fifty midshipmen and seven faculty attended the first term of The United States Naval School. Five years later, t...
Sep 19, 2009
Sparks students celebrate old and not-so-old school buildings
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(North County News) - Sparks Elementary School is throwing a party to celebrate 10 years of existence at its Belfast Road location and to ho...
Jun 22, 2009
Rainy Saturday Doesn’t Dampen Program at One Room Schoolhouse in Worton Point
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(RoDP) - Although a series of thunderstorms brought heavy rain to Kent County this Saturday morning, the downpours didn’t stop a great day f...
Jun 15, 2009
Mac McGarry
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(Wikipedia) - Maurice J. "Mac" McGarry (born June 15, 1926) is the current host of the television quiz show It's Academic, whi...
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