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The Story of North Grove School

Posted on August 31, 2016 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Forgotten Places, Schools .

I got a call last week from Andrew at the Tuscola County Advertiser after seeing my photos of the old North Grove School that sits empty between Caro and Mayville. He was writing a story about it, and wanted to know what I knew about the school, and why I took a photo of it. Sadly, I did not know any of the history of the school, but I took a photo of it because it looked like something that needed some love and attention. Thanks to Andrew I do know the history of the school, and if you want to read his article you can do it HERE

P.S. I love it when I post a pic and I get ” the rest of the story” as Paul Harvey would say.

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The Places I find on the Back Roads

Posted on May 15, 2016 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Schools .

I found this old building which looks like an old school house east of Ithaca traveling the back roads. If it was a school I am not sure which school. Maybe Lafayette school since the historic Lafayette Church is down the road. I guess whatever it uses to be, it isn’t that anymore.

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Running like Crazy

Posted on May 10, 2016 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Schools .

I have been busy lately and not posting as much as I want too. My son and daughter are both running track for school this spring, and I had 4 track meets last week, and another 4 this week. I wanted to let you know so if I miss a post for a few days or I am late in responding to your email, that is why. I have taken a few pics on my way to some of the meets, but I am looking forward to getting out on a road trip and getting some more pics. I do enjoy going to the away meets and seeing other schools, the people at school sports are always friendly and welcoming, and I don’t mind supporting the schools, even if its a different school than my own kids school.

P.S. if you’re wondering, this pic of of the track at Bay City Western in Auburn a few years ago. we got delayed for a thunderstorm and then after it had passed we had this beautiful sunset. I just wish I had a pic like this of my kids home track.

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The Lonely Old Schoolhouse

Posted on May 7, 2016 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Schools .

I went to what I consider to be a “small school” with only about 80 students in my graduating class, I guess by today’s standards that seems kinda small. I can’t Imagine what it would be like going to a one room schoolhouse. While in school in the 70’s we got something called a personal computer and I learned basic on an Apple IIe. I thought that was really hi-tech, now my kids have tablets in there schools. I can only imagine what the kids at the North Grove school would think of all the technology we have today. The old North Grove School still stands along M24 a few miles south of Caro watching cars go by longing for the days it had children learning inside and playing outside in the grass next to it.

Oh by the way, I liked going to a small school, yes we had limited sports and extracurricular activities, but I new everyone’s name in every grade and it was kinda like a big family. My kids go to a large school, which offers lots of opportunities, but it’s kinda strange to me that my kids probably know only about half of the students in there grade.

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The Henry R. Pattengill Monument – Michigan Historical Marker

Posted on May 3, 2016 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Schools .

Henry R. Pattengill began his career as the superintendent of St. Louis schools, and later of Ithaca schools. His experiences in rural Michigan education led him to advocate for its improvement during his tenure as Michigan Superintendent of public instruction. In 1924 his formal pupils and admirers donated 510 stones from around the world to construct this monument next to the Ithaca fire station as a memorial to their beloved teacher, colleague and friend.

Henry R. Pattengill (1852 – 1918) was Michigan’s Superintendent of public instruction from 1893 to 1897. As a textbook author, an orator and editor of Moderator-Topics, a journal for educators, he shaped Michigan’s education system. He championed the creation of rural district libraries, free textbooks, compuls oary attendance and teacher certification. Running as a Progressive, he lost his bid for governor in 1914.

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Getting Lost In Silverwood

Posted on April 25, 2016 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Schools, small towns .

O.K., I wasn’t really lost in Silverwood, that would be hard to do since there are only a few streets in the town. I did find this building that looks like and old school house or a church, or probably both. There is an old store in town that I have tried to get a pic of a few times but every time I am in Silverwood there was a truck parked in front of it, oh well, maybe on the next trip.

When the railroad (later part of the Pere Marquette Railway) was built through here in 1882, the residents applied for a post office. One suggested naming it something easy to remember, and the post office named “Easy” opened on April 13, 1882, with James R. Chapin as the first postmaster. The name changed to “Rollo” on March 27, 1890, and changed again on May 2, 1892 to “Silverwood”, after the nearby stands of white pine. A subdivision plat for the Village of Silverwood was filed on July 19, 1899.

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Getting Lost and Finding the Kingston School House #2

Posted on April 11, 2016 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Schools, Uncategorized .

This morning I decided to head out to Port Sanilac to get a pic of the lighthouse (a post for another day) on the way there heading east on M46 I got to the town of Kingston and when I get to a small town I like to drive around the area to see what I can find and I saw an old barn of in the distance so I headed out to it, then I saw another old barn and headed over that way and the for whatever reason I turned down another road and and about a mile or two down the road I saw this old school house on a farm. The Kingston School #2 built in 1892 is surrounded by electric fence, ( not that I trespass, I always stay on the road and respect other peoples property.) but it looks as if the cows wander around the old school. I thought to myself, maybe the farm has some smart cows since they have their own school. Sometimes I know where a location I want to photograph is before I go on a road trip, but I love it when I find something interesting by pure chance.

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The Ghost Town of Podunk

Posted on March 21, 2016 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Forgotten Places, Schools .

Yes there is a town in Michigan called Podunk, actually there are a couple of towns in a few different counties called Podunk. This photo of an old school house in the forgotten town of Podunk is a few miles northwest of Gladwin. I could not find any info about the town other than the name and location, I am guessing it was on old logging camp, but it’s only a guess.

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Memories of Paczki Day

Posted on February 6, 2016 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Restaurants, Schools .

The former St Josaphat’s School in Carrollton

The best paczki don’t come in a box with the word “PACZKI” in giant red letters sprawled across the top of the box, they come in a plain white paper bag from a Polish Catholic church. My great grandparents immigrated here from Poland, and I went to school at St Josaphat’s in Carrollton ( a Twp. next to Saginaw) and Paczki Day was always a special day at school, we got hot fresh paczki from the women making them in the basement. While I was attending school there in the 80’s the parish built a new building across the street from the school, and the name of the church change recently to St John Paul II. They no longer make the paczki in the basement they are still making them with the same recipe in the new building.

A single one is paczek pronounced “pohn-check” and more than one paczek is paczki, pronounced “poonch-key”. There always seems to be a lot of confusion about paczki, I think because the big box stores started selling them, and they just make them with their usual doughnut recipe. A bismarck and a paczek are not the same thing, the box stores need to stop passing off jelly doughnuts as paczki. According to my grandmother, pączki are made with a richer heavier dough that has more eggs and sugar and Grandma said Polish people did not have a lot of money for fancy fillings, if they had any filling at all, it was usually prune. I think people think the paczki is supposed to be fancy like a French pastry or something, but the paczki recipe was a way polish Catholics used up their dairy and eggs and indulged themselves before lent. When you eat a paczki, it’s not just deep fried dough, its part of Polish heritage and reminds me of a time my relatives came over from Poland seeking a better life. They may not have been rich, but they were honest hard working people. Oh and one more thing, authentic paczki do not have any preservatives so if you don’t eat them the day you get them, the next day the are like eating hockey pucks.

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Bath School Disaster – Michigan Historical Marker

Posted on May 17, 2015 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Michigan Historical Markers, Schools .

the cupola from the Bath School that was bombed rests in a park in Bath Michigan

On May 18, 1927, a dynamite blast rocked the Bath Consolidated School, shattering one wing of the building and resulting in the death of thirty-nine children and teachers; dozens more were injured. An inquest concluded that dynamite had been planted in the basement of the school by Andrew Kehoe, an embittered school board member. Resentful of higher taxes imposed for the school construction and the impending foreclosure on his farm, he took revenge on Bath’s citizens by targeting their children. Soon after the explosion, as parents and rescue workers searched through the rubble for children, Kehoe took his life and the lives of four bystanders including the superintendent, one student and two townspeople, by detonating dynamite in his pick-up truck as he sat parked in front of the school.

The destruction of the Bath Consolidated School shared the front page of national newspapers with Charles Lindbergh’s transatlantic flight. “Maniac Blows Up School …Had Protested High Taxes” screamed the headlines of the May 19, 1927, New York Times. Michigan Governor Fred Green created the Bath Relief Fund, and people from across the country expressed their sympathies and offered financial support. Michigan U.S. Senator James Couzens gave generously to the fund and donated money to rebuild the school. On August 18, 1928, Bath looked to the future and dedicated the James Couzens Agricultural School to its “living youth.” A statue entitled, Girl with a Cat, sculpted by University of Michigan artist Carleton W. Angell and purchased with pennies donated by the children of Michigan was also dedicated that day.

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