Students spend ‘day of pretend’ at pioneer schoolhouse
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Walking up the hill to the Honey Creek Schoolhouse is like taking a field trip back in time.
On a frosty fall morning, students visiting the schoolhouse are welcomed inside as an old stove warms the room, filling it with the cozy smell of woodsmoke. They slide into iron-frame desks with wooden tops, heavily inscribed with the initials and doodles of generations of children who came before them.
Exercises are worked on slates or with ink pens and inkwells, and a morning treat of hot cocoa is passed out and sipped from tin cups.