Pie suppers and cakewalks

Friday, April 1, 2005

I hadn't thought about a pie supper or a cakewalk in a long time. But for the one-room buildings where I learned to read and write -- and, unfortunately, never quite mastered fractions -- fund raisers were essential to the financial survival of country schools.

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