schoolhouse
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I grew up in eastern Kentucky and attended grade school in a four-room schoolhouse without indoor plumbing that had a potbelly stove for heat in the winter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Lessons were taught in a small schoolhouse set on a bucolic campus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
Kapisillit's red wooden schoolhouse has a bell, library and Soviet-era hunting rifle to fend off polar bears.
From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 2026
Right, he didn't stand in the schoolhouse door.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2024
It felt like if I didn’t say something, they were going to stand outside the schoolhouse all night.
From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan
One of my parents is an IU alum, but more than that, we were all born in Indiana, flat land of cornfields and quarries, churches and schoolhouses, often the punchline of other states' jokes.
From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2023
But millions of Americans gave voting a go anyway on Tuesday, dutifully turning up across the country to cast ballots at schoolhouses, libraries and V.F.W. posts.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
From I-5, several routes deliver you to the mountain, but WA-18 to Green Valley Road runs parallel to the river and charming historic homes, old schoolhouses and red barns.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2022
He built schoolhouses and cleared the streets of hogs, goats and geese.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 2022
What passed for public school at the time was a haphazard assortment of locally run one-room schoolhouses and overcrowded urban classrooms scattered around the country.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
