The School Bell is Ringing!
On Saturday 1 August 2015 at 10:30-11:15 am the old Blazo School across from the Parsonsfield Seminary will again be open for business! As part of Parsem Day, educators from the Norlands Living History Museum will be recreating a school day, 1852 style!
Come see how Readin', 'Ritin' and 'Rithmatic were taught in the mid-nineteenth century. Try your hand at writing with a quill pen and stand tall when asked to read aloud by the school marm!
Donations will be required to help off-set the costs of the presentation.You can also see a display of photographs of Parsonsfield Schools.
Portland Press
Herald & Evening Express – Sept 8, 1946
Blazo School,
Parsonsfield, ME – established 1792
Emily Louise
Chapman age 8, Wilfred Allen Martin age 7, Jane Lewis age 10
"There is
something inspiring in the thought and sight of the small armies of children
returning to school during this second postwar year, beset as they are with
teacher shortages. But the annual event
of school opening, and the presence of youth in numbers on the city streets and
country lanes can be but heartening to those who sense the importance of these
early school years. At the Blazo School
in North Parsonsfield, established in 1792 and one of the oldest of Maine’s few
remaining one room schoolhouses, Emily Louise Chapman, 8, Wilfred Allen Martin,
7, and Jane Lewis, 10 pause momentarily before the day’s session when that
school opened last Tuesday. The
photograph taken by Staff Photographer, Gardener M. Roberts."
