Your Weekly Resource To What’s Happening In The Pocono Region!
www.ThePoconoTimes.com
FREE
October 4, 2017
mobile mammography Women throughout Wayne County will have increased access to life-saving breast cancer screenings, thanks to a “big pink van.”
more on page 2 what’s happening See what’s happening throughout the Poconos with the region’s most comprehensive events calendar. page 2
halloween fun Spooktacular tips for the holiday. pages 6-7
hospital expansion Wayne Memorial Hospital officials recently broke ground on construction for the biggest expansion in its history. page 5 puZZle fun Crossword & sudoku puzzles. page 13
WEEKEND WEATHER
THU 73 50
Showers
FRI 69 48
Showers
SAT 64 52
Cloudy
POSTAL CUSTOMER
POCONO
PRE-SORTED STANDARD US POSTAGE PAID PERMIT #285 STROUDSBURG, PA *ECR WSS
TS_CNG/POCONO_TIMES/PAGES [P01] | 10/02/17
11:10 | CORNELLCHR
SUN 69 54
Showers
One-room schoolhouse to hold an open house
A special open house is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 7, at 1 p.m. at 485 Church Road in Eldred Township. This is only the third time in 70 years that the school has been opened to the general public. In 1855 the Town of Eldred had seven one-room schoolhouses. Students sat in rows on benches and took notes with chalk on pieces of slate (the same slate that the roof of the school was made from). All grades, from the first to the eighth, were taught in that one room. The room was heated by a simple potbelly stove and light was provided by large windows on three walls. The fourth wall was filled with a huge chalkboard. Ninety years later, with the advent of school buses, the students were consolidated from the Frantz, Barlieb, Christman, Correll, Smith Gap and Kleintop schools
at the Gower School. Each of these schools were named for the family on whose property the school stood, and today these names are not just reflected in the names of roads but in the descendents of these civic-minded families still living in Eldred. The Barlieb, Christman and Gower buildings are gone. The Kleintop and Smith Gap were saved and repurposed as homes. Reportedly, the Correll is too deteriorated to be saved, but the Frantz School has been refurbished. On Oct. 7, visitors will be able to stand in the old school house and see the original desks and chalk board. The schoolhouse and grounds are being repaired and maintained by a group of neighbors. For more information email churchroad@gmail.com.