JONES 1 (2)

REFER - picture with her two daughters and one daughter's family

PHOTOGRAPH - I think Marion liked this picture of herself alone, but she looks more relaxed in the picture with her family. She was born in this house and has lived in it all her life. She taught for several years in the Braintree school, a neighborhood school, and later in the Pawlet and West Pawlet schools after all the neighborhood schools had closed.

INTERVIEW EXCERPT

Marion:

"When I came to Pawlet from the Braintree District School, I taught the first three grades. Of course there were changes because there were no older children in the classroom. The children were not on the same level of learning, but closer. I think in some ways it was better but I'll always have a spot in my heart for the rural school, because there was something warm and homey and close about the rural school, you could do things that you couldn't do in consolidated schools - the children could help each other. I think we really lost something good when the rural schools were closed, although I realize that there were advantages too to consolidating." (from interview - July 1982)