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1865 Pine Grove Schoolhouse Closed For Summer Due To Pandemic
"It is difficult to socially distance, property ventilate and keep clean because of the delicacy of the artifacts."
Press release from the Avon Historical Society:
June 2, 2021
This year on Saturday, June 12, the State of Connecticut is asking all historic sites and museums be open free of charge for residents. However, due to ongoing pandemic recommendations for reopening historic sites, the Avon Historical Society has decided to once again close the 1865 Pine Grove Schoolhouse, corner of West Avon and Harris Roads, for the summer visitor season. Being a one room museum, it is difficult to social distance, property ventilate and keep clean because of the delicacy of the artifacts. Instead the Society invites everyone to learn about the schoolhouse and West Avon by watching a YouTube video made in 2020 located on the Society’s website at: https://avonhistoricalsociety.... or searching it on YouTube. In addition, on the premises is a large two-sided kiosk with photos and information about the time it was a school.
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Also available for the public is the Pine Grove Schoolhouse Little Free Library located next to the building on the south side. It is full of books for every age and interest level. Feel free to take or leave a book or two this summer. It accessible to everyone 24/7.
In addition to the PGSH Little Free Library, there is another attraction on the premises. Last summer Avon residents, Bill, Agnes and Emma Brown hid a geocache on the property. Geocaching, like little free libraries, is a worldwide treasure hunt through their website www.geocaching.com. This particular cache, named “Simpler Times” is in a handmade birdhouse. You will have to visit it to learn more!
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The Avon Historical Society hopes that even though the schoolhouse is not available on CT Museum Open House Day, residents will stop by, read the kiosk, share or take a book or two and view the property from the outside with a plan to visit inside next summer in 2022! For more information on the Avon Historical Society, visit: www.avonhistoricalsociety.org.
This press release was produced by the Avon Historical Society. The views expressed here are the author's own.