A college campus during the break between spring and summer sessions extends a calmness. I can easily feature a student pausing here to shed a backpack and check a paper or perhaps return a phone call.
Our group of adults yielded right-of-way to the class of departing 8th graders in the upper left. For some reason or other — the chaperons at the back of the group appeared weary.
Americans were concerned with education from the beginning and established several colleges prior to independence.
Residents of fictional Elm Ridge, Illinois, in the 1850’s would have needed to travel to St. Louis or beyond for higher education. The local schools taught the basics only — but that included enough to operate a small business and understand the newspaper. Check out New Dreams, a sweet romance, for a story set in that time and place. https://amzn.to/3vWydWE
