ABSTRACT
The ramshackle white clapboard structure, eighteen by thirty feet and twenty feet tall, sits forty yards off the road. It’s an unassuming building in an abandoned lot. The building is clearly sinking, too, and the foundation of native blue fieldstones plowed from local farms is in serious need of being shored up. For two school years now, the junior historic preservationists have been doing the hard but necessary work to save a parcel of the past that has been long forgotten—not just the building itself, but the people who attended the school as well. A key and enthusiastic supporter of the project is Deep Sran, the founder of the LSG, who believes with his whole heart and soul that “history is justified optimism,” a way of looking at the past that permits us to see the progress that has been made over time as a prism through which to view our present.
