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...third grade, Miss Lizzie found teachers and pupils waiting to place a golden crown on her head and install her on a "throne"-a school desk covered with yellow crepe paper. It was a school holiday-but the 230 kids all showed up anyway. All morning the townsfolk poured into the red schoolhouse to shake hands with Miss Lizzie, who has taught 1,294 boys & girls in her day-more than Sheldon's present population...
...highly unique place to spend an evening. It is a phantom village, taken out of time by an ingenious miracle, into which two American travelers happen to wander one day. What happens to them provides the story, and when one of them accidentally kills one of the townsfolk, he precipitates the best scene of the show. This is the funeral, a wonderful mixture of dance and bagpipe music which is full of the fascination that such ceremonies in foreign lands often hold...
Education for All. In 1926, while teaching education at St. F.X., he decided to put some pet theories into practice. He sold Margaree townsfolk on the idea of a big new school. They raised the money for materials, built the school with free labor. Then Dr. Coady turned to the adults. He organized a study club, explained the co-op way of doing things. Out of that came the Margaree Producers' Association of 30 members...
...Chief Marshal Lord Tedder and his Lady, but refused to hold the child for photographers ("I might drop him!"). Bagpipes welcomed the Eisenhowers to Maybole, where the General was made a freeman and burgess. Ike, who had got in a little shooting on the moors, put the townsfolk at ease: "The poachers among you will find just as many birds left as before I came." Bagpipes piped him on his way to Balmoral Castle. The Eisenhowers' hosts there: George VI and Queen Elizabeth...
There is no mountain worthy of the name within hundreds of miles, but the townsfolk of New Glarus, Wis. (pop. 1,068) like to get out and yodel. They also blow ten-foot Alphorns made from fir logs, build houses with high roofs typical of the Swiss Alps, talk a Schweizer-deutsch patois, hang sweet-chiming Swiss bells around the necks of their innumerable brown Swiss cows, and produce vast quantities of Swiss cheese and Swiss lace...