BLUE MOUNTAIN — Five people who once attended class at Blue Mountain Schoolhouse celebrated the historic school’s 100th anniversary Sunday at the five-acre property on Blue Mountain Road.
They were part of an event that drew about 175 people, including representatives of pioneer families who first settled the Blue Mountain area.
The celebration was highlighted by a potluck picnic and a community photograph taken in front of the schoolhouse.
Newcomers to the area also attended the event, said Mary Neuenschwander Hermann, one of the event’s organizers.
“I’ve always appreciated the fact that when we went to school there, the most pupils we had there was 18,” said Mary Hermann, who started first grade at the school in 1925. “I appreciated all my teachers there, one for each grade. It’s just a wonderful little school.”
Original classmates who attended the celebration were Bill Corning, representing the Emery family; Dorothy King Aden from the Stillwell family; Mary Hermann with the Hermann family; and Patty James and Frances Sage, representing the Broughton-Gellor families.
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The rest of the story appears in Monday’s Peninsula Daily News.