2025 Presentations

Union School- "Punkin Center School"- Marshall University, WV

Details for the 2025 CSAA Country School Conference, June 8th-10th, are nearing completion and here we offer the list of our presenters and their programs for our 20th year anniversary celebration! We're piloting a 2.5 day conference format with a busy schedule, numerous activities, and the coach tour of area historic sites, (this year the tour is included in the conference registration price.)
Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia will host our conference coordinated by Drs. Teresa Eagle and Isaac Larson. We thank them for their hard work and dedication to schoolhouse preservation.
General conference information is available on this website at the following links and REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN. Join us for friendship and a shared love of the history, restoration and preservation of our remaining country schools.

A full conference schedule will be provided soon.  Information on dorm availability and hotels will be included. Registration form supplies many details.

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2025 West Virginia Conference

REGISTER HERE FOR 2025 CONFERENCE

​Presentation List for the 2025 CSAA Country School Conference
Marshall University
Huntington, West Virginia
 
“Freedmen's Bureau Schools in West Virginia”
Presenter: Ralph Buglass

“University of Hard Knocks: West Virginia's College of Blood, Sweat and Tears”
Presenter: Dr. Veronica I. Ent
 
“Moving Mt. Pleasant School” 
Presenter: Dr. Douglas Sturgeon
 
“Path To National Register of Historic Places”
Presenter: Dan Hawley
 
“Leading a One-Room “Country” School in the Heart of Remote Queensland, Australia”
Presenters: Dr. Meegan Brown  &  Dr. Isaac Willis Larison
 
“Ranger Mac and the Wisconsin School of the Air”
Presenter: Robert Frenz
 
“Saved - What Happens Now?”
Presenter: Sarah Bent
 
“The History and Travels of Two Rural Schoolhouses in West Virginia”
Presenters: Dr. Teresa Eagle & Kimberly Brownlee 
 
“Achieving a Dream” 
Presenters: Dr. Paul Lutz & Dr. Teresa Eagle
 
“Readers Theatre - My Great-Aunt Arizona “
Presenters: Dr. Isaac Larison and Marshall University Student Performers
 
“Memories of a One-Room School Teacher in Poverty-Stricken Appalachia”
Presenter: Chip Brabson
 
“A History of Crafts in Danish Country Schools and The Flax Weaving Museum at Krengerup”
 Presenter: Lone Bodekaer
 
“Roots of Education: How Communities Shaped the Curriculum of  Historical One-Room Schoolhouses”
Presenter: Magan Walters 
 
                                               "Teaching History with Dolls"                                                     
Presenter: Debbie Schaefer-Jacobs
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“It Started with a One-Room Log Cabin: Lutheran Schools in America”
Presenter: Dr. Pam Stover