After many interviews with the surviving students of Belden School, stories were told and woven into a fictional tale of what it might have been like going to school in the one room rock schoolhouse in the 1800s.   The story is for young and old, alike, and imparts the message that 'some things just never change' when it comes to relationships among children then and now.

   You know what it's like to be around a bully everyday in school.  You get knots in your stomach because you never know when you're going to be the next victim. 

   It's probably happened to you or one of your friends already.  But did you know that school bullies were doing these same things more than one hundred years ago? Some things never change.

   Meet Peter McDugal.  Same story, same pranks, but different time.   Peter's adventures happen in and around a one room schoolhouse named Belden.  It's more than a school.  It's a friend to Peter, tucked in the hills of the Mississippi River Valley area.    It holds the people of the community together through good and bad.   Find out what makes Belden so special and Peter's life so adventurous!