Red Boots & Lunch Bucket - Softcover

Red Boots and Lunch Pail
Memories of Attending District 22, Freeborn County, MInnesota

  John Wolter Nielsen 

"With wry humor and affection, Nielsen recalls both a bygone time and a place that doesn't exist anymore, rendering it real and accessible for all of us for whom that experience is foreign and strange.  His account functions as a kind of time machine, transporting us into a chilly, smelly classroom and introducing us to a lively cast of characters who made up his world almost a century ago.  It's an invaluable witness, not just for his own children and their descendants but also anyone whose life intersects in some way with education in the rural, one-room schools of the past."  

     Julie K. Allen, Professor of Scandinavian Studies
     Brigham Young University
     Editor of The Bridge, Journal of the Danish American Heritage Society