We continue to have interesting visitors at our OPEN HOUSES each year. This year was no exception. Gordon Francis (see Picture) visited during our October 12th OPEN HOUSE. He is the son of Marion Horton who taught at the Hornbine School from 1923 – 1926. Gordon donated several of his mother’s pictures to our scrapbook binders many years ago.
Marian Horton started teaching at the Hornbine School when she was eighteen years old. She married Douglas Francis a couple of days after the end of the 1926 school year. Her younger sister, Ruth, attended the school during the years Marian taught. Ruth married Raymond Reed, an older boy in the class, several years later. Go to our website at http://tinyurl.com/hornbineschool to see Marian’s picture collection and for more information about her.
Our APPLE DAYS on October 26th was a great success! We had many happy young visitors and adults. Go to our Facebook Page (Hornbine School Museum) to see pictures of the event. Dawn Azar, our director, arranged for several activities for the youngsters such as “Clothespin in the Bottle”, “Memory Blocks”, “Graces”, “Scavenger Hunts”, and “Apple Toss”. Young visitors could dress up in old fashioned clothes; select a FREE book or use a real feather pen. Everyone could have apple cider and donuts and/or buy something at the yard sale.
The school is closed for the winter but we expect to have several new activities in 2026 while we celebrate our country’s 250th anniversary.
We hope you all have a happy holiday season.
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