Bill Sherman "The Godfather of Country Schools" leaves an incredible legacy
Today we join the many who are mourning the loss of preservationist, historian, country school advocate and friend Bill Sherman. We have yet to meet a more passionate advocate of historic preservation, one-room school restoration and Iowa history. We lovingly called Bill "the Godfather of Country Schools." We met Bill in 2007 during the premiere of our documentary "Lost Nation: The Ioway" at the State Historical Building in Des Moines. Prior to introducing the film, Bill got in the elevator with "Ioway" filmmaker Tammy and pitched in 30 seconds a documentary film on the history of one-room schools in Iowa and the Midwest. Tammy thought he was going to follow her onto the stage to join her filmmaker husband Kelly. But Bill shook her hand and gave her a card and took his seat in the audience. Little did we know that this was the man who got the one-room school on the Iowa quarter, and he was persuasive and persistent. Two years later, we were in the field ...
