I can only admire those early residents of the Villa, as it was popularly called, for the determination to create their own school. ![]() Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. Grade School Children Posed in Classroom, with teacher standing in the back of room, Washington, D. I promise to end with some good news that closed out the decade of the ‘90s. ![]() Let me begin with the good news: the battle to create a school in Mount Tabor Villa, then we can examine the ensuing years of civic contention. Fortunately, the push for a Mount Tabor Villa School got going in 18, but the ensuing years were difficult ones financially and socially. For more than half those years, the United States was experiencing its worst depression ever.īeginning with the Panic of 1893, it became known as the Great Depression. If I look at the then-new community of Mount Tabor Villa (soon renamed Montavilla), it seems to me these years were anything but gay. I don’t know why we talk about the “Gay ‘90s”. I decided that to give this institution its due, more than one article would be required. ![]() Writers note: When I began researching Montavilla’s first public school, I was unprepared for the extent of press coverage for what was initially a small suburban school.
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