The round schoolhouse of Brookline

Today, I took my first ride with the Windham Wheelmen, a very friendly local bike club. It’s nice to find a group where I’m one of the young guys. It was a perfect late summer day, just the right temperature, the leaves are starting to turn colors, couldn’t ask for better.

In honor of this being my first ride, we made a short detour to the round schoolhouse of Brookline. At some point around the end of the 19th century, a former Scottish highwayman named John Thunderbolt Wilson came to town and built the schoolhouse, where he taught, in between acting as the local physician. Supposedly it is the only round schoolhouse in the country. Go figure.