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Rural schools face hurdles as important part of communities

j.deyoung
Oct 12, 2018
Oct 12, 2018 Updated Oct 19, 2018

Harold Dinsmore Farragut school — Harold Dinsmore stands outside the old Farragut school. Dinsmore started teaching at the southwest Iowa school in 1958. The school district closed two years ago, and the old high school is being converted into an apartment complex.
Photo by Jeff DeYoung

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FARRAGUT, Iowa — Harold Dinsmore walks the halls of the school building he called home for nearly 60 years.

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The old Farragut school was built in 1928. The district was closed two years ago.
Photo by Jeff DeYoung

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Farragut sports — The closing of a school is really the closing of a social institution which provided an identity for that community for many years.
Photo by Jeff DeYoung

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