Word: elmwood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus gloomily intoned James William Crabtree, secretary of the National Education Association, to a little crowd of Nebraska farmers gathered last week in a grove, across the road from a one-room schoolhouse, the Fairview District School, near Elmwood. The occasion: the school was 50 years old. Fifty years ago Educator Crabtree punched cattle in the dusty buffalo-grass outside the grove; 46 years ago he caned culprits, taught lessons in the schoolhouse...
...small village of Elmwood, Ill., there occurred last week a praiseworthy event. In a park the Girls' Glee Club sang "Illinois" and "America the Beautiful"; many "midwestern pioneers" over the age of 75 and old residents of central Illinois sat cheerfully in a grandstand. Several persons, including famed Sculptor Lorado Taft, made speeches. Then there was unveiled a bronze group statue, The Pioneers, by famed Sculptor Taft...
...Elmwood, Ill., was the town in which Sculptor Taft had spent his boyhood.* Proud of their well-known onetime citizen and proud too of the pioneers, less spectacular but no less hardy than their pacemakers beyond the Mississippi, who came long ago to settle in the "middle border," Sculptor Taft conceived the idea of making a statue for the village green, requiring for his work no payment. It was nonetheless necessary for Elmwood's 1200 denizens to raise $17,000 to pay for the material costs of the statue and the cost of erecting it. This they...
...granite base, it shows a young pioneer couple. The man has a gun, the woman a baby. Side by side, they stand looking in the direction of the possible peril. The park around the statue is neat and luxuriant. No other U. S. village the size of Elmwood has yet shown the wisdom or the ability to adorn itself so well...
...Urchin Taft lived in Elmwood because his father taught school there; it was after his father, Don Carlos Taft, left Elmwood to be professor of geology at the University of Illinois, that young Lorado gave precocious and legendary birth to his interest in sculpture. A crate containing a cast of the snake-grappled Laocoon Group came to the university. Dismayed to find that the art object had been smashed in transit, 12-year-old Lorado who had accompanied his father to superintend the uncrating, seized the fragments and fitted them cleverly into their proper places, a feat his father...