From Slates to
iPads…Our Schools From 1840 to the Present is a photographic and memory exhibit showing at the Hickory
Corner Branch of the Mercer County Library System through October 28, 2013. The
library is located at 138 Hickory Corner Rd, East Windsor,
In the exhibit, the
Hightstown East Windsor Historical Society will look back at the area's early
schools. The oldest images will evoke a time when writing on a slate was
the closest a child came to using an iPad and parents had to send their
children to private academies because there were no public schools.
Other images will show
where Clara Barton, future founder of the American Red Cross, taught children
living in our area to read and write. More recent images will bring back
memories of the Mercer Street School (now the Hightstown YMCA), the Stockton
Street School, the Hickory Corner School and the first school in New Jersey
shaped like a geodesic dome.
To accompany the exhibit, the Hightstown East Windsor Historical Society will sponsor a roundtable in which local students, teachers and administrators will
share some 60 years of memories of working and learning at local schools.
It will be held Sunday, September 29th, at the Historical Society headquarters
at 164 N. Main St. in Hightstown from 3 to 5 pm.
