Old Schoolhouses To Be Topic Nov. 8
Tammy Gady To Speak at Rudyard Meeting

One-room schoolhouses will be the topic of the Thursday, November 8, Rudyard Historical Society meeting at 7 p.m. at the Rudyard Community Center. The meeting is free and open to the public.

Tammy Gady, a member of the Michigan One-Room School House Association of Michigan, will be the featured speaker. She and her husband, Roger, own the 1922 Ozark School in Ozark. Mrs. Gady has completed extensive research on one-room schools in the Rudyard area. Mrs. Gady is a member of the Eastern Upper Peninsula History Consortium, a group of 20 museums that share ideas about collecting local history. The Gadys volunteer their time at the Kinross Heritage Park Museum in Kinross, where an exhibit featured a small red outhouse that belonged to the former Rudyard district's Akrigg "Hardscrabble" School. The former school's students included the children of men who worked in a remote lumbering community.

Mrs. Gady also worked at the Rudyard Public Library, where she has met many former Rudyard country school students and teachers who shared photographs and memories of their school days. Some of that information will be presented at the November 8 meeting.

Mrs. Gady has spoken at Eastern Upper Peninsula History Consortium conferences and at a Mackinaw City Historical Society meeting.