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"Oh, I remember this."

"Hey, I had one of these!"

Many summer visitors to the Monticello Area Historical Society's newest museum display, Slate Boards to Smart Boards, stepped back into their own school days.

The society has transformed the museum's main display room into a school room, where books, desks, lunch boxes and sports equipment highlight the history of Green County schools and the evolution of teaching and learning.

In the back corner sits the old potbelly stove. Those whose desks sat near the stove always seemed to be too warm, while those who sat furthest away were too oft...