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History of Cosgrove

5/16/2012

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Jack Ruth, who is a graduate of this school in 1951, came to speak about the history of Cosgrove.  Before he came, we visited the old St. Peter's Church site just down the way on Black Diamond Road.  The only thing left is the cemetery.  The kids had a good time looking at the graves to see the names, families and figure out how old the person was when they died.  Many came from Ireland or Germany.  Some were hard to read while others used a more expensive stone that preserved well which lead into a discussion about money and how some spent all of their money leaving Ireland or Germany and traveling to Iowa.  Jack had a nice presentation organized with handouts of maps and locations of buildings in Cosgrove.  He talked about what school was like when he was here and shared stories of how he had to get out of the hack (school bus pulled by horses) on rainy days to because the horses couldn't pull the kids up the hills.  He also said there was a horse barn that was located in the southeast corner of our property.  We actually found the foundation of this earlier this year while exploring!  He made an awesome model or the original church and buildings to show the kids as well.  The kids were respectful and took away interesting facts about the history of our school. Cool! 

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    Laura Wolf is the mother of three children who have attended  Prairie Green.  Currently, Lucy is in her final year at PGS while her older boys attend West High School.  She has also taught grades 3rd-5th and is a media specialist.

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