Thank You from CSAA Nebraska 2018!
We already miss Nebraska already while planning for Maryland 2019! We invite you to enjoy our 2018 video slide show highlighting presenters, participants, and our ever-popular coach tour of country schools. Attendees from 21 states spent the greater part of three days sharing one-room school preservation and history presentations while based at Southeast Community College in Beatrice, Nebraska.
Representatives from Homestead National Monument of America and their volunteer group, Friends of Homestead, rolled out the red carpet for our conferees offering tours of the Freeman School, the Homestead Museum, displaying spectacular hand-made schoolhouse quilts by local quilters, and photographer Gloria Hawkins' photo exhibit with over 50 one-room school photos entitled, "Yesterday's Schools." Author David Laskin spoke on, "The Children's Blizzard," sharing stories from his book of the same title. Judge Paul Korslund spoke on the history of the Freeman School Bible Case in 1902. Former country school teachers gathered at Homestead to share endearing tales of their teaching years.
We would like to thank all of our 2018 hosts, our 22 presenters, guests, and volunteers who helped make this conference another success for CSAA. We offer this video slide show as a reminder of what it means to help preserve our iconic country schools for ourselves and for posterity. See you again in 2019!