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Students in Elaine Fairchild’s fourth grade class at Middle Gate Elementary School spent three days in May 1995 learning what school was like for their counterparts approximately 140 years earlier. Middle Gate’s fourth grade classes used to rotate through the circa 1850 one-room schoolhouse on their school’s front lawn each spring for lessons. Among other tasks, Mrs Fairchild’s class spent time enjoying stone soup, taking a test, and reciting reading lessons, which is what the four students in this photo were doing when this picture was taken. —Bee file photo
