Simpler Times - Quarve Schoolhouse #3 in Benson County ND Wood Print

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"Simpler Times"
I shot this around the time of the summer riots of 2020, and for me, it reflects back to much simpler, calmer times - A time when all grades k-8 shared a single room and a single teacher. But then I realized that maybe that perception is a temporal illusion - after all, those were the times of polio, Spanish Flu, rampant death in childbirth, WW1, WW2, Dustbowl, depression, hunger, etc. Maybe the PRESENT is the "simpler times"... but I digress..
This is the "Quarve #3" schoolhouse in Benson County, and has been documented by Kathy Wilner on the ND Country Schoolhouse website: https://statemuseum.nd.gov/.../SHP.../Sites/32BE00230web.pdf

Peter Herman was born and raised on a farm in North Dakota. He first became interested in photography during high-school, and after acquiring a Pentax SLR, began taking photos for the school yearbook and developing/printing B&W images in school darkroom. He continued shooting through college, taking portraits, group pictures, weddings, but after beginning his engineering career at Cummins, he let his photography interests go dormant until about 2005 when he acquired his first DSLR and started shooting scenic landscapes from around the US, but concentrating especially on rural areas in ND and WI. Many of his images were encountered while riding motorcycle down random backroads during "golden hour", searching for that magic light...