A 138-year-old schoolhouse in Oakton, Va., gets a visit from its last remaining pupil — and his three great-grandchildren
“Did you burn yourself on it?” asked Isaac, one of the triplets.
It was all fields back then — corn fields and pastures, woods and dirt roads. At recess, students played fox and hounds, chasing each other until they were summoned back to class.“Did you get to ring the bell?” asked Isaac, who, like his siblings, is in fifth grade.There’s a bell mounted on a table in the corner of the larger of the school’s two classrooms. It’s the original bell, lost for years, then found in a barn on theGeorge Waple“There were two johnny houses,” Proffitt said.
This necessitated explaining two things to the triplets: What the Sears and Roebuck catalogue was, and why it came in handy in an outhouse.Not food, of course. That they grew or raised themselves on their 150-acre farm.
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