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TRIVIA ANSWERS
1. McGuffey's Eclectic Readers
2. V.G. Jones
3. Reuben Spaulding Branson
4. 1880 and 1922
5. Painted Rock State Forest
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1. You may have some stuck away in a closet of in a drawer. For many years no school curricu-lum was complete without McGuffey's Eclectic Readers. Called "eclectic" because they were selected from various sources, these volumes first appeared around 1836. Compiler of the readers was William Holmes McGuffey, who once taught in a country school in Ohio and later went on to become a college professor.
Excerpted from "THE UBIQUITOUS McGUFFEY'S READERS," November, 1993
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2. If you have been reading the articles on rural one-room schools over the past year and a half, including the Miller Grove School featured this month, you may have noticed the name of V.G. Jones mentioned a number of times. In fact, you might assume that Mr. Jones was more than one person, since it seems impossible for one person to be in so many schools for so many years.
Excerpted from "V.G. JONES: A DEDICATED TEACHER," September, 1994
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3. Branson, Missouri has become a worldwide recreation and tourist attraction. It is fast becoming, if not already, the "Country Music Capital of the World," surpassing Nashville. Many people are aware that Branson is named for its first postmaster, Reuben Spaulding Branson. Some are aware that there is some connection between Reuben S. Branson and Osage/Gasconade Counties, but very few are aware that there are several connections--connections of people and of culture.
Excerpted from "THE BRANSON CONNECTION," October, 1994
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4. In 1872, plans were made to go forward with the construction of a new courthouse. The [county] court requested that the second courthouse be built on the south side of the square. Louis Trentmann, an immigrant from Hanover, Germany, presented the plans . . . . Total cost of the new structure was almost $29,000. Unhappily, on the early morning of November 15, 1880, it caught fire and burned to the ground, except for the fireproof vaults and the walls.
Excerpted from "THE EVOLUTION OF A COURTHOUSE," May, 1995
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5. In 1877 a group of Jefferson City sportsmen used the land the river as a recreational area. In 1907, when the land was about to be sold, the group officially incorporated as "Painted Rock Country Club." Governor Herbert Hadley was among the shareholders. The group hunted on the land and built a large clubhouse (now demolished). The group gradually disbanded, and in 1981 the Conservation Department purchased the property from an individual . . . Painted Rock gets its name from river-bluff paintings which were already ancient when discovered by Zebulon Pike in 1806.
Excerpted from "PAINTED ROCK STATE FOREST," June, 1995