Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: school

Twin Lakes, Michigan. Another photo from last week's vacation. We found this when we set out to walk around the lake. Another view of this bus here .

A still-functioning one-room school at the corner of Oneida Road and Strange Highway, Eaton County, Michigan. The name's a historical reference, as the Stranges were among the first local settlers .

Strange School, Strange Highway @ Oneida Road, near Grand Ledge, Michigan. This is still a functioning school, though (as you can see) it's grown a second classroom.

Woodland's a small village about fifteen miles down M-43 from mine. Like Mulliken, it was once a grain elevator town, though the buildings that housed both of the town's grain businesses are largely gone these days. So's the railroad track the elevators originally lived on. The Chicago, Kalamazoo, and Saginaw failed in 1937. ========== This is an alternate crop of the photo I posted to Flickr for 366 Snaps a year ago. Oddly, I posted this crop to Facebook last July 17--carelessness, I guess. ========== I took this photo on a trip to Kalamazoo, where I would accompany my sister to a doctor visit which resulted in an extended hospital stay. I don't plan to discuss my sister's medical problems, nor my brother's, but it's going to become abundantly clear that I spent a lot of time at Borgess Hospital over the second half of last year. I'm sure I'll mention this again, because it will be unavoidable. But you should expect no details. ========== This photograph is an outtake (actually, an alternate crop) from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 10 Title of " roll :" Woodland Other photos taken on 7/17/2012: none.

Strange School's a still-operating one room school at the corner of Strange Highway and Oneida Road, south of Grand Ledge. The school's building was built and opened in 1879; Eaton County District No. 3 was originally created in the 1830s. This has been Eaton County's only one room school since Loucks School (near Mulliken) closed in June of 2002. There's a centennial history of the school on the school's website . Can't say I recommend it. ========== John and George Strange were among the first settlers in Oneida Township; they first explored the area and purchased land in 1836, though they'd not immediately move to that land. Daniel Strange, John's son, wrote the quite readable Pioneer History of Eaton County which was published by the Eaton County Pioneer and Historical Society in 1923. This history I do recommend . ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 32 Title of " roll :" Strange School Other photos taken on 7/5/2012: none--unless you count a couple videos of an unexpectedly heavy rain.