Nickellton School Festival Old Fashioned Pie Supper Reunion

All are Welcome!

Saturday, October 15th

Gathering around NOON

Musical Entertainment by Keota

Pie Supper Auction 3:00PM

Food while supplies last

 The Pie Supper Auction

You make a pie and put it in a pretty decorated box. Bring it to the Nickellton festival and enter it into the Pie Supper Auction. Oral auction begins at 3:00PM. Traditionally you would then eat your supper with the person who bought your box. But we will let you eat with who you like. All the proceeds of the auction will go to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. 

Bring:

• Lawn Chairs
• Musical Instruments
• Stories and Memorabilia to share
• Pie in decorated box

Directions from Atlanta, Missouri (point A): Go North on Hwy 63 from Macon to Atlanta, turn right onto Hwy M, continue about 9 miles to Olive Ave. (point B) and turn left, continue about 2.5 miles to Hwy MM and turn right, continue about 1 mile to Oxbow Rd. turn left. Come to the first house on the left and you will be directed to park.

For more information contact Carla Poepsel: carla.poepsel@borgia.com or carla .poepsel@gmail.com

A Sneek Peek

          I promised a sneak peek of the inside of the school and here it is. The windows are encased with the original trim. The wainscoting is original and the floor is the original flooring put in during the late 1940's. The walls have been updated to drywall instead of laths and plaster, but the texture of the walls has been made to look and feel like plaster walls. It really looks like the school my Mother remembers. I have arranged the pictures to show before the renovation and after the work completed up to this point.

We still need to finish the baseboard, the chalk board, the lighting, and the details of the school that will bring the school even closer to its original look. We are planning a Nickellton School Pie Supper Reunion October 15th, 2011. Save the date and begin collecting stories and memorabilia to share that day. More information to come at a later date. More stories to come after school is out.

New Year, New Look!

New year, new look. No, I am not talking about a personal extreme makeover.  I'm talking about Nickellton School's extreme makeover.  Take a look. Hard to believe the before and after. I bet if the school looked itself in the mirror it would say "Oh baby. My face lift's look'n good." We should have been on Extreme Makeover School Edition; I do believe there is such a show.

This was taken in 1910.

This picture was taken in 1989.

Before the new siding went on this fall we stapled a copy of this picture onto the old ship lap siding next to the window where grandpa is standing in this picture. According to this picture we placed the copy just above grandpas head. But don't look for the picture in the above picture because it is not there. It is now under the new siding in the bottom picture. But don't look for it there, because it is covered up with siding. Hee Hee

 This picture was taken last spring, just before starting the extreme makeover.

 This picture was taken this fall during the process of putting new siding on the school. We were hoping to find the old school district sign that you can see in the first picture, but it was not there. However if you look closely between the two ladders you can see where the sign once hung. You can also see the outline of the porch.

 WOW! EEE! What a transformation!

Hard to believe it actually looks alot like the original school. Just some weathering updates. We are going to work on the bell tower and the chimney at a later time. The inside of the school is taking shape too. Tune in next time for a sneek peek.