Headlines 20 May 2013

Greenfield pupils visit Konneker Education Museum

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By Harold Schmidt
Greenfield Historical Society

More than 140 Greenfield Exempted Village School District third-graders visited the Greenfield Historical Society's Konneker Education Museum in May to learn about education in early Greenfield schools.

Earlene Scott, the schoolmarm, taught the students about manners, proper dress, penmanship, elocution, the use of slate boards and the "dunce" cap.

The educational display in the museum was a hit with the students.

Here students are looking at a display case with pictures of early Greenfield school buildings and students.

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• Over 160 Greenfield fourth-graders learned about inventions produced by inventors from Greenfield and also products manufactured in Greenfield.

Harold Schmidt explained horse-collar pads, rat traps, coffee grinders, lifevests and other products made in Greenfield and shipped all over the world.

All students got a chance to spend time in the Konneker Education Museum.

The model of an what an 1810 schoolhouse might have looked like was a popular exhibit.

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