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The Quiet Teacher of District 83 and a Child’s Christmas Hope
In 1917 rural Star County a White faced teacher Ruth Ravenston arrives in District 83 to teach eleven children in a sod schoolhouse. A hopeful boy P like plans a Christmas gift a phonograph dream for his Grandma Gabel while the community seeks ways to show kindness amid wartime hardship and isolation.
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Abram
Washington
Smoky Hill
District 83
Providence
Ruth’ Ravenston
God's” Mercy
Pike
Kentucky
Santa Claus
Grandma Gabel
Tully
Pirke
Ant
Ang
Tobe
Grandma
Miss Ravenston
Star City
P’like
Gabel Ranch
Mobdy
Star County
Brimmin
Upper Smoky Hill
Ruth
Miss. Ravenston
Mr. Witherspoon
Mebby
McCullen
Upper Smoky Valley
1917
France
U. S.A
Ted
Tobe Gabel