PHOTO OF THE DAY: SEAT WORK

Kevin Albrecht, left, visits with those who will help tell the story of what life was like inside the one-room country schoolhouse at a program being presented by Heritage Hall Museum & Archives Sunday, Sept. 28 at 2 p.m. The program is free to attend and will take place inside the historic Bethel Church, which is part of the museum’s campus and not far from the Diamond Valley School, where the group met to discuss the plan for the program on Wednesday morning, Sept. 16. In addition to Albrecht, who will moderate “Rural School Reminiscences,” those pictured are Pauline Hofer and brothers Larry, Ronnie and Loren Tschetter, whose mother, Martha, was a teacher at Diamond Valley.

Loren attended Diamond Valley from 1948 to 1956, Larry started there in 1956, and Ronnie enrolled two years later. Pauline attended Morning Star beginning in 1956.

Pauline also taught at a country school, leading the students at Hillside District 92 from 1971 to 1976, when the school was part of the recently reorganized Freeman Public School District.