Island View Schoolhouse

Island View Schoolhouse is a beautiful black and white image of a historic one room school in Seymour, TN.  The story behind the image: The Island View Schoolhouse sits in a cow pasture along Boyd's Creek Rd. The school was built in 1917 on 2 acres of donated land. Students from 1st to 8th grade attended the school many of them walking several miles to get there. Thirty five to forty children would be taught under one roof. The school remained open until 1949. In recent years, Dr. Sam Lyle, whose grandfather donated the land for the school, has been restoring the building. [Reference: Sims, Elizabeth. "Abandoned Places: Island View School. WBIR.com. 19 May  2019, www.wbir.com/article/entertainment/places/abandoned-places/abandoned-places-island-view-school/] For many years, my father-n-law encouraged me to get pictures of the schoolhouse. On the day I took this image the lighting and clouds were a perfect complement to the building. The rich contrast of shapes, colors, and textures cre