Rita Palmen Haim, 81, of New Richmond, said she read about the reunion online and decided to attend. “Most of us went to Guardian Angels Church, and we were just all really close.” “It was a tight-knit community,” she said. It was just heavenly.”Īnderson’s siblings went to the same school, and their family knew all of the other families in the area, she said. “When you were done with your schoolwork, you went into the library and you did flash cards with the younger children,” she said. Mary Anderson, 81, of Forest Lake, shares memories of attending the Hudson Road School in Oakdale during the late 1940s and early 1950s during the Rural School Reunion sponsored by the Washington Count Historical Society at the Hay Lake School Museum in Scandia on Saturday, Sept. The Oakdale school’s teacher that year was Miss Gonzalez, she said. Mary Pierre Anderson, 81, of Forest Lake brought a black-and-white photo of Hudson Road School’s 1950-1951 class. Some alumni brought photos and mementos to share with other attendees. “Because out there they only played baseball, and we played softball.” “When I went to Forest Lake, they laughed at me,” he said. The main “gym” activity was softball in the field behind the school the field is gone now, Lindell said, replaced by mature trees. I liked everything about going to school here, but I didn’t have a choice. “When we had our lessons, we went up front with the teacher,” he said. There was a bigger desk in the back for Billy Lind, who needed the extra room, he said. Lindell said he sat at the second desk from the front on the right-hand side of the schoolhouse. “The boys were on the right, and the girls were on the left, and there was a woodshed in between.” “The outhouse was out back,” said Lindell, 77, of Scandia, who attended the school from 1953-1958. They would dress in old-fashioned clothes, play games like Red Rover at recess and attend class in the one-room schoolhouse, which was heated by a wood stove. Valleen, who taught at Scandia Elementary School for 44 years, every spring brought her fifth-grade students on a field trip to the Hay Lake School Museum. By the early 1960s, all of them had closed, said Brent Peterson, the society’s executive director. Washington County had 79 rural school districts and one joint district with Chisago County that were slowly consolidated during the 1940s and 1950s. The event, sponsored by the Washington County Historical Society, was open to anyone who attended a one-room/two-room school anywhere in the county. Valleen, 73, of Chisago, was one of about 45 alumni of rural schools in Washington County who attended the first Rural School Reunion at Hay Lake School Museum in Scandia on Saturday. I would go home and ride my horse after school.” They have many, many fun activities that they’re involved in, but they have very little downtime. She went from an all-grades elementary school in Sauk Centre, Minn., to Goose Lake School, a one-room schoolhouse that was separated by a partition - a combined third- and fourth-grade class on one side, and her combined fifth- and sixth-grade class on the other. "Richard came in and looked at the phoenix, and said 'wow they train these animals marvelously these days,'" Columbus said.When Sandra Lundin Valleen and her family moved to Scandia in 1960, it was like stepping back in time. Director Chris Columbus and Daniel Radcliffe during "Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts." Nick Wall / HBO Max But Harris, who was succeeded by Michael Gambon in the films after his death, didn't know that, according to Columbus and Radcliffe.
In their conversation, the two shared a laugh while describing filming the scenes that involved Harris and Fawkes, the phoenix that served as Dumbledore’s animal companion. Richard Harris, aka OG Dumbledore, thought Fawkes was depicted by a real bird.ĭuring a portion of the reunion, which featured Daniel Radcliffe (who played Harry Potter) and director Chris Columbus (who directed "Sorcerer’s Stone" and "Chamber of Secrets"), the two recalled filming certain scenes with Harris, aka the OG Dumbledore. Here are ten things we learned about the films after watching the reunion.
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