WV: It's Official

"COUNTRY SCHOOLS on COUNTRY ROADS"
Marshall University
​in Huntington, West Virginia
to Host the 2025 CSAA Annual 
Country School Conference
June 8-10, 2025
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CSAA is celebrating a 20-year milestone and you are invited to join the festivities! It was in 2005 at a meeting in Barbourville, KY that an interested group of one-room school enthusiasts decided to consolidate their efforts and incorporate. The result was that the group became what we now know as the Country School Association of America.
 
Plans are well underway to celebrate that significant beginning with an outstanding conference as we gather  at Marshall University in  Huntington, West Virginia.  

The 2025 CSAA Conference, "Country Schools on Country Roads," will be held from 
Sunday, June 8th through Tuesday,  June 10th, 2025.  The team at Marshall University, headed by Dr. Teresa Eagle, Dean of the College of Education & Professional Development, and Dr. Isaac Lairson, Professor of Literacy Education, are offering a conference focused not only on the traditional Three-R's, but also referencing the basics of historic preservation as set by the Secretary of the Interior: Restoration, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation.  Attendees will be afforded the opportunity to explore Appalachian heritage, industries, crafts, and cuisine during our time together.
 
 The 2025 conference, with an all-new format, begins on Sunday, June, 8th with a host of activities including schoolhouse, campus, and library  tours at MU ahead of the 2:00 P.M. opening events.  Dinner that evening will include the  key note address and the Preservation, Artistry & Scholarship awards presentations. 
 
Monday, June 9th will be filled with programs, and that evening’s entertainment will treat attendees to regional music provided by the Stoney Point String Band.  On Tuesday, June 10th the Annual Coach Tour, included this year, will provide a fascinating view of  Appalachian heritage, industries, crafts, and cuisine as we travel along Country Roads together visiting Country Schools and historic sites  reflecting the area’s 3-R's of Historic Preservation - Restoration, Recreation, Repurpose.

Our trip culminates at Heritage Farm Museum & Village where we will have an opportunity to tour the open-air  museum, visit the exhibits, and admire the beautifully restored one-room schoolhouse which sits on the former location of Ratcliff School. There we will enjoy dinner and a theatrical performance to round out the day and conclude CSAA’s  2025 conference. 
 
Mark your calendars! This will be a unique conference making historical  connections to education and preservation while providing schoolhouse enthusiasts an opportunity to  connect to friends old and new as they  experience  “Almost Heaven,” West Virginia!

Heritage Farm Museum and Village