A lesson in Grundy County history: Local students visit Herbert Quick Schoolhouse

By: 
Michaela Kendall

GRUNDY CENTER - Local students got a lesson in Grundy County history earlier this week, when classes from the Grundy Center Elementary and Middle School visited the Herbert Quick Schoolhouse at Orion Park.
 
Students got to take a tour of the schoolhouse, practice lessons on slate chalkboards and find out exactly what it was like to go to class in a one-room schoolhouse a hundred years ago.
 
Grundy Center Historical Society member and docent guide Barb Melloy volunteered to show the kids around earlier this week, and led them on their hunt for knowledge.
 
A retired teacher who taught elementary and middle school reading and language arts at Grundy Center for 37 years, Melloy says she enjoyed the chance to get the younger generation interested in local history; even learning a lot herself in the process.
 
“It’s been a lot of fun getting the kids out to the schoolhouse; so many of them play at the park and see the schoolhouse, but not many of them know what it was, what it was used for, or who Herbert Quick was,” she said. “My teaching background isn’t in history, so anything I’ve learned about the schoolhouse and the history of one room schoolhouses in Iowa has been in the last few months being involved in the historical society, so it’s been a fun learning process for me, too.”
 
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