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Cotton-Patch Schoolhouse is a memoir of the author's 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 different grade levels in a one-room schoolhouse in the middle of a cotton field. Youthful enthusiasm, native wit, and a sense of adventure helped her transform the simple schoolhouse into a place of learning and excitement.

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Most readers will simply enjoy reading this work because it tells a good story, and arouses a deep sense of nostalgia.... It tends to confirm a common belief--that there once existed a far better, more perfect world that the one we live in today; a world in which neighbors were always neighborly, students were eager to learn, and teachers were loved and appreciated by students and parents. --Kenneth R. Johnson, University of North Alabama The book is charming and delightful. --Harriet E. Smith-Somerville, The University of Alabama Reading Cotton-Patch Schoolhouse took me back to my south Alabama childood--and made me wish I had been one of Miss Susie's pupils. --Kathryn Tucker Windham A marvelous account of poverty and endurance during the late 1920s. Indeed it is the most compelling account I have read of a world now largely gone. --Wayne Flynt, Auburn University The book is charming and delightful. Harriet E. Smith-Somerville, The University of Alabama The book is charming and delightful. Harriet E. Smith-Somerville, The University of Alabama Reading Cotton-Patch Schoolhouse took me back to my south Alabama childood and made me wish I had been one of Miss Susie's pupils. Kathryn Tucker Windham A marvelous account of poverty and endurance during the late 1920s. Indeed it is the most compelling account I have read of a world now largely gone. Wayne Flynt, Auburn University Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Most readers will simply enjoy reading this work because it tells a good story, and arouses a deep sense of nostalgia . It tends to confirm a common belief that there once existed a far better, more perfect world that the one we live in today; a world in which neighbors were always neighborly, students were eager to learn, and teachers were loved and appreciated by students and parents. Kenneth R. Johnson, University of NorthAlabama Most readers will simply enjoy reading this work because it tells a good story, and arouses a deep sense of nostalgia . It tends to confirm a common belief that there once existed a far better, more perfect world that the one we live in today; a world in which neighbors were always neighborly, students were eager to learn, and teachers were loved and appreciated by students and parents. Kenneth R. Johnson, University of North Alabama The book is charming and delightful. Harriet E. Smith-Somerville, The University of Alabama A marvelous account of poverty and endurance during the late 1920s. Indeed it is the most compelling account I have read of a world now largely gone. Wayne Flynt, Auburn University Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Most readers will simply enjoy reading this work because it tells a good story, and arouses a deep sense of nostalgia.... It tends to confirm a common belief--that there once existed a far better, more perfect world that the one we live in today; a world in which neighbors were always neighborly, students were eager to learn, and teachers were loved and appreciated by students and parents. - Kenneth R. Johnson, University of North Alabama Most readers will simply enjoy reading this work because it tells a good story, and arouses a deep sense of nostalgia.... It tends to confirm a common belief--that there once existed a far better, more perfect world that the one we live in today; a world in which neighbors were always neighborly, students were eager to learn, and teachers were loved and appreciated by students and parents. - Kenneth R. Johnson, University of North Alabama The book is charming and delightful. - Harriet E. Smith-Somerville, The University of Alabama A marvelous account of poverty and endurance during the late 1920s. Indeed it is the most compelling account I have read of a world now largely gone. - Wayne Flynt, Auburn University Most readers will simply enjoy reading this work because it tells a good story, and arouses a deep sense of nostalgia.... It tends to confirm a common belief--that there once existed a far better, more perfect world that the one we live in today; a world in which neighbors were always neighborly, students were eager to learn, and teachers were loved and appreciated by students and parents. - Kenneth R. Johnson, University of North Alabama The book is charming and delightful. - Harriet E. Smith-Somerville, The University of Alabama A marvelous account of poverty and endurance during the late 1920s. Indeed it is the most compelling account I have read of a world now largely gone. - Wayne Flynt, Auburn University

Reading Cotton-Patch Schoolhouse took me back to my south Alabama childood--and made me wish I had been one of Miss Susie's pupils. --Kathryn Tucker Windham A marvelous account of poverty and endurance during the late 1920s. Indeed it is the most compelling account I have read of a world now largely gone. --Wayne Flynt, Auburn University The book is charming and delightful. --Harriet E. Smith-Somerville, The University of Alabama Most readers will simply enjoy reading this work because it tells a good story, and arouses a deep sense of nostalgia.... It tends to confirm a common belief--that there once existed a far better, more perfect world that the one we live in today; a world in which neighbors were always neighborly, students were eager to learn, and teachers were loved and appreciated by students and parents. --Kenneth R. Johnson, University of North Alabama

<p><p> Most readers will simply enjoy reading this work because it tells a good story, and arouses a deep sense of nostalgia.... It tends to confirm a common belief--that there once existed a far better, more perfect world that the one we live in today; a world in which neighbors were always neighborly, students were eager to learn, and teachers were loved and appreciated by students and parents. - Kenneth R. Johnson, University of North Alabama <p>

Most readers will simply enjoy reading this work because it tells a good story, and arouses a deep sense of nostalgia . It tends to confirm a common belief that there once existed a far better, more perfect world that the one we live in today; a world in which neighbors were always neighborly, students were eager to learn, and teachers were loved and appreciated by students and parents. Kenneth R. Johnson, University of North Alabama

<p> Most readers will simply enjoy reading this work because it tells a good story, and arouses a deep sense of nostalgia.... It tends to confirm a common belief--that there once existed a far better, more perfect world that the one we live in today; a world in which neighbors were always neighborly, students were eager to learn, and teachers were loved and appreciated by students and parents. - Kenneth R. Johnson, University of North Alabama <p>

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Most readers will simply enjoy reading this work because it tells a good story, and arouses a deep sense of nostalgia.... It tends to confirm a common belief--that there once existed a far better, more perfect world that the one we live in today; a world in which neighbors were always neighborly, students were eager to learn, and teachers were loved and appreciated by students and parents. - Kenneth R. Johnson, University of North Alabama

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Susie Powers Tompkins, writer and award-winning artist, received her bachelor's degree from Alabama College, Montevallo, in 1928. Later she and her husband moved to Tuscaloosa where she owned a private school for speech and art for a number of years until World War II. During the war and the resulting teacher shortage, she began teaching at Verner School. She taught there for more than fifteen year while raising her two children.

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