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hauled onto it. This type.of road is called a corduroy road. It was just a narrow one-way road and one had to wait at the end if anyone was on the road because we couldn't pass. My schooling was obtained in a log schoolhouse. The first term I went to school was of three months duration. Our teacher received $15 a month. He lived at home and carried his lunch of oatmeal gruel in a quart pail. Most of the pupils had Johnny -cake and sorghum in their dinner pails. Parents had to buy books for their children, so books were scarce. Wild game was abundant. I can recall passenger pigeon flocks flying by all day, day after day. Some nested in our groves. The depressions where the nets were set to catch the pigeons are still to be seen. Live pigeons were sold to gun clubs for $1.25 a dozen. Wild ducks and geese were plentiful and there were some deer. Neighborhood gatherings were bright spots for children as well as for grown-ups. All of the work was necessarily done by hand. Grain was cut with a cradle. Hay was cut with a scythe, put up in piles when dry and carried on poles to be stacked." (Fred Keasling, quoted in Anderson, 117) Communities Section 1 Additional media and activities to tell the story (objects, film, images, sound, etc.) l . P 1990.200.4423 Main Street in Clear Lake, looking NE across RR tracks —Livery Stable, C.M. Schuldts house, Anderson Hotel, etc. 2. P1990.200.425 A Souvenir of Happy School Days/Dist. NO 27 Blue Hill, May 23, 1902 3. P1990.200.314 Becker Consolidated School, sign on side of buggy —[maybe first school bus in Becker after country schools consolidated, estimated teens or 1920s] 4. P1990.200.310 Becker Schoo/1918—school children in front of Becker school (or choose from many others) 5. P1990.200.165 Celebrating the 4th of July at Jens Jorgensens Dane Township, Becker 1902 6. P 1990.200.122 and 121 Knutson General Store, 1883, Becker 7. P1990.200.115 Eskimobile 1931 Model A Ford delivering mail in Becker Twnshp 1935 8. P1990.200.099a-b TownHall/Becker Built 1891/Burned 1911 9. P1990.200.284 horsedrawn school bus used in 1935 and 1936 Becker 10. Robert Orrock and family seated in front of log cabin, 1857, Location E200 p37; Negative no. 910 11.01990.092.001 Remains of a Government Land Office Survey section stake, ca. 1850 12. 01990.094.001 1857 map on linen of Orono and proposed Godfrey's Addition, 1857, with Elk River and Mississippi confluence and mill pond on Elk River 13. 01990.102.001 View of Elk River, Sherburne Co. 1879; Uppertown and Lowertown map 14. The early settlements should be located on a map. Sherburne County Historical Society Heritage Center Interpretive Plan, April 21, 2005, page 44