Buckeye Schoolmaster A Chronicle of Midwestern Rural Life, 1853-1865

John Roberts liked playing with words and learned to write well. His descriptions of life in the classroom, at candlelit singing schools and debates, on madcap sleighing races and camp meeting binges - anywhere he could observe human behavior - help restore our memory of the primitive beginnings of common schools and of country and village life in a region still emerging from its pioneer past.