School days at Port Oneida’s log schoolhouse

  • Laura Basch: “One of the things we had—I don’t know who furnished the toboggan, but somebody furnished a toboggan; and I have a picture of it, and I’ll find it, too, for you. It’s a picture of a whole bunch of us kids on the toboggan and that little hill as you go down to the lake. We could go one place there and sled down. We was not allowed to go on the lake (which had a reputation for being dangerous.) We’d just go so far on that toboggan.” C. 1921 Courtesy photo
    Laura Basch: “One of the things we had—I don’t know who furnished the toboggan, but somebody furnished a toboggan; and I have a picture of it, and I’ll find it, too, for you. It’s a picture of a whole bunch of us kids on the toboggan and that little hill as you go down to the lake. We could go one place there and sled down. We was not allowed to go on the lake (which had a reputation for being dangerous.) We’d just go so far on that toboggan.” C. 1921 Courtesy photo
This continues a series adapted from the book, “A Port Oneida Collection,” Volume 1 of the twopart set, “Oral History, Photographs, and Maps from the Sleeping Bear Region,” produced by Tom Van Zoeren in partnership with Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear. Here we take a look at the North Unity School, along M-22 on Lake Narada.The North Unity School was constructed, and began operations, around 1879…

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