State Reform School
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Over the years, the school has had many name changes also. Starting out as the Reform School, in 1935 the name was changed to the State Industrial School to reflect the training received there. In the 1950's the name was changed to Pine Hills School for Boys. | Over the years, the school has had many name changes also. Starting out as the Reform School, in 1935 the name was changed to the State Industrial School to reflect the training received there. In the 1950's the name was changed to Pine Hills School for Boys. | ||
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| + | == Life at the school == | ||
| + | The school ran a winter and a summer menu in 1912. | ||
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| + | Breakfast was oat meal mash alternated with corn meal mash, and one of: corn bread, wheat bread, toast or bisquits, plus coffee. Tuesday added "graham gems", Thursday added hot cakes and syrup, and Sundays added coffee cake. | ||
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| + | Summer lunch was roast pork Mon-Thu, roast veal Fri-Sun. Vegetable was either potatoes, turnips, or cabbage with "green corn" added Sun-Wed. There would usually be bread and some kind of gravy, including "cod fish gravy" on Mon. Dessert may have been bread, cottage, rice, Graham, or Tapioca pudding, or waternelon in late summer, or apple pie on Sundays. | ||
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| + | Winter lunch had fried pork for every day except Sundays, which had ham and eggs. Most days served mashed potatoes and gravy (pork gravy obviously), bread and gravy or both. The extra item was either bread soup (or pea soup) with crackers, sauerkraut, baked beans, or turnips and pickles. Winter lunch desert was the same as summers. | ||
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| + | Supper only had meat on Sundays, sliced ham in the summer, cold roast pork leftovers in the winter. Main course was either stewed beans, baked beans, green corn, boiled rice, mac and cheese or mac and tomatoes (spaghetti?). Carbs were often cinnamon rolls, but also included ginger bread, cookies, bread and butter, ginger cake and on Sundays, white or other regular cake. Dessert (besides sweet carbs above) was either apple, peach or prune sauce. While coffee was served at breakfast, tea was the supper drink. Presumably, water and milk were available at most meals. | ||
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| + | Two years later, pork and veal had been replaced by beef and mutton. | ||
==Economic Impact== | ==Economic Impact== | ||
