Upper-grade scholars pose with their shipshape “Corner” schoolhouse. Expanded from a single-room school, the lower floor was used for primary grades one to five, while the second floor was used for grade six to the first year of high school.
In the fall of 1924 a Nobleboro farm boy, Hudson Vannah, just graduated from high school, took the teaching job in a one-room school at Back Cove, South Waldoboro, a community adjoining Friendship. Hudson found this to be a very different world from upland Nobleboro, although located less than 10 miles away.
Almost all the men went lobstering in the summer… In the winter most of the women braided rugs for Old Sparhawk Mills… the men cut and fitted their wood supply for the next winter, killed and processed their pigs, dug some clams for home use, and went hunting… In the early evening, the kids all got together and visited for a few minutes at every house on the road. This went on almost every night… It was a wonderful community, almost a country by itself.
Hudson was less taken with the diet of sea duck and wild rabbit served at the home where he boarded, and he taught for only one term.
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