Memories of a Simpler Time…
In addition to selling beaten biscuits, Ruth Orrell was also a teacher for over 30 years. She spent most of that time, from 1944 to 1967, as the teacher of the one-room Longwoods Schoolhouse in Talbot County, Maryland. One room schoolhouses, like Longwoods, were staples of rural communities across America. They combined primary grades in […]