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Cotton-patch schoolhouse / Susie Powers Tompkins.
LIBRA LA2317.T66 A3 1992
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tompkins, Susie Powers, 1907-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tompkins, Susie Powers, 1907-.
- Tompkins, Susie Powers.
- Teachers--Alabama--Marengo County--Biography.
- Teachers.
- Education, Rural.
- History.
- Alabama--Marengo County.
- Education, Rural--Alabama--Marengo County--History.
- Marengo County (Ala.)--History.
- Marengo County (Ala.).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 216 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [1992]
- Summary:
- Cotton-Patch Schoolhouse is a memoir of the authors year as a young and inexperienced teacher in rural Marengo County, several miles from Linden, Alabama, in 1926. Seeking to earn money to continue college after her freshman year at Alabama College in Montevallo, the author welcomed the opportunity to teach eight children at five difference grade levels in a one-room schoolhouse in the middle of a cotton field.
- ISBN:
- 0817305637
- OCLC:
- 24066797
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