The gardening and rural education programs were a major success at NANS.

ID: 907 ~ Source: Images Courtesy of Freel Library Archive, 1908 & 1909, from Mark Hopkins Gardening photobook, 1908 & 1909, NANS Photograph Album Box 14.

This file appears in: The Early North Adams Normal School Admissions and Curriculum

The gardening and rural education programs were a major success at NANS.

Students from every grade level would be required to completely a part of the physical farm work alongside classroom-based learning about such relevant activities like germination or tilling.

This file appears in: The Early North Adams Normal School Admissions and Curriculum

The Early North Adams Normal School Admissions and Curriculum

By Emily Kelleher

Established through an act of Massachusetts legislature “to meet increasing demands for trained teachers,” North Adams Normal School (NANS) was established in 1894. The school offered three main courses of study as well as specialized certificate…