Helen Brown, a second grader at Dutton Christian Elementary, raises her hand to answer a question Monday in Detray School, an old one-room schoolhouse in Gaines Township. The class spent the day in the schoolhouse learning what it felt like to be a pioneer, using feather pens and ink wells, chalkboard slates, and playing in the field behind the school during recess.
(Emily Zoladz | The Grand Rapids Press)