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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChalkboard drawings, frozen in time for 100 years, discovered in Oklahoma school
"Teachers and students scribbled the lessons multiplication tables, pilgrim history, how to be clean nearly 100 years ago. And they havent been touched since.
This week, contractors removing old chalkboards at Emerson High School in Oklahoma City made a startling discovery: Underneath them rested another set of chalkboards, untouched since 1917.
The penmanship blows me away, because you dont see a lot of that anymore, Emerson High School Principal Sherry Kishore told the Oklahoman. Some of the handwriting in some of these rooms is beautiful.
More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/06/06/eerie-chalkboard-drawings-frozen-in-time-for-100-years-discovered-in-oklahoma-school/
phantom power
(25,966 posts)bluesbassman
(19,374 posts)Warpy
(111,274 posts)This would make a great exhibit there.
bluesbassman
(19,374 posts)Good call.
FSogol
(45,488 posts)Despite their handwriting (probably the teacher's to be copied by the students), they could not count to 2 successfully.
The 31st should be on a Monday.
SeattleVet
(5,477 posts)where they were just starting to switch over to December. All of the dates except for the first row match for November, and they have a Thanksgiving type of chalk drawing.
FSogol
(45,488 posts)SeattleVet
(5,477 posts)The next week (and all the others) are from November. Not sure why they'd do it that way, but the calendars match up for the rest of November.
Tom_Foolery
(4,691 posts)So that must have been Thanksgiving, which is a red-letter day.
SeattleVet
(5,477 posts)shows the contractors that hung the then-new chalkboards over these:
http://kfor.com/2015/06/05/piece-of-history-discovered-behind-walls-of-oklahoma-city-high-school/
MBS
(9,688 posts)Thanks for posting this.