Foggy Memories - Cooksville WI Schoolhouse in foggy fall sunrise

by Peter Herman

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Foggy Memories - Cooksville WI Schoolhouse in foggy fall sunrise

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Peter Herman

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"Foggy Memories"
I shot this foggy sunrise a few days ago at the Cooksville (Wisconsin) historic schoolhouse (restored and kept up as a community center) and picnic grounds in the foreground beneath the amazing outstretched limbs of an ancient oak tree. I posted a hand-tinted infrared shot of this scene a few days ago, if you missed it, but this shot is taken with my "regular camera" using a long (200mm) lens from the street that runs past the west side of park. Actually, it is stitched together from two separate horizontal shots, so the source file is of very high resolution (not shareable here).
Some history clipped from the "CooksvilleNews" website -
"The Cooksville School began early life as a log structure in the 1840s, replaced by a brick building on the Public Square about 1850. But because of structural problems and its small size, it was replaced in 1886 by the present wooden frame building.
Salaries for school teachers at most schools began at $2.00 per week for a school term of five months and increased in the 1860s to about $30 a month with board. In the 1860s and 1870s wages varied from about $30 a month for the four-month summer term to about $50 a month for the four-month winter term."
Image captured 9/29/21.

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November 30th, 2021

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