Event At Country School Celebrates 150th Anniversary

150 years ago, three men rolled up their sleeves to build a country school at the base of an immense hill in the “uplands” southeast of Table Rock, Nebraska. They used native limestone quarried nearby. One of the men, Vaclav “Jim” Fritch, had recently come from the Czechlands. He was a stone mason. Another, E. A. Hansen, had come from Sweden. He was a carpenter who had signed on Norwegian ship to …