'Schoolmarm' Samantha Kulish Explains It All For You [Video]

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the First District School, known as the Little Red Schoolhouse, was moved from its original location on East Avenue to the , near the Norwalk Green.

The Little Red Schoolhouse Program was started in the 1970s by local elementary school teachers, Since then Norwalk third grade students have been visiting the park and stopping in the schoolhouse to sit on the hard wooden benches and listen to a woman dressed up as an 1820s schoolmarm.

Samantha Kulish is one of many women who have taken on the role over the years, and she's now in her third year.

She tells the students what school days were like back then. Quill pens with homemade ink or slate tablets were used, moral lessons were copied into copybooks and elocution was an important subject.

Punishments could be harsh. In addition to the ones Kulish talks about in the video (taped on July 4), a child who forgot to bring wood for the stove might be forced to stay in the small, cold cloakroom all day long.