This one room school house was the scene of a scandal that was immortalized in poem by John Roulstone, who witnessed the deed, and Sarah Joseph Hale.
It's fleece was white as snow
And everywhere that Mary went
That lamb was sure to go.
It followed her to school one day
Which was against the rules
It made the children laugh and play
To see a lamb at school.
The plaque on the rock tells how this school house was originally located in Sterling, MA, but was brought to this site by the Wayside Inn in Sudbury by Henry Ford in 1927. The school house was in use from 1798 to 1856.
7 comments:
What a great photo! I had no idea there was any such schoolhouse...it's too bad a lamb at school was against the rules...darn bureaucrats!
Beautiful story end excellent image. They are right to put a plaque near a school two hundred years old, which adds history to the story.
Oh, I didn't know this scandal really happened! Beautiful photo!
What a great story!! Hah! I had no idea it was based on a real event.... I also didn't know
the second verse....
excellent angle on the shot too..
I don't think you could get away with much in that classroom.
I thought it was an English song.
What a pretty schoolhouse - looks like it belongs in a storybook. I like your low angle, you've really got an eye for "point of view" shots. (Moja baka raised pigs, geese and chickens during and right after the war, while she lived in Serbia before moving to Pula. As a girl, my mother had to "watch" the geese and take them to a pond & thought they were a mean bunch.)
I knew about the poem, but not the background. Thanks for the history lesson.
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