Author talk: "From a One-Room Schoolhouse to Captured by the Russians"

Author and Geneva native Charles Burrall - keynote for a national schoolhouse conference at Hobart and William Smith Colleges June 21
About this Event

The author, who grew up in Geneva, will recount his experience taken hostage by the Soviet Union along with other fishing boat crew members during the Cold War, and reflect upon the four years he was educated in Geneva’s last one-room schoolhouse, the Glass Factory Bay School, now a residence.

This talk -- free and open to the public -- is the opening keynote for a 3-day conference of the Country School Association of America, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of old rural schools. The conference brings together history buffs, preservationists, educators and others interested in commemorating our nation's educational heritage.

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