The great conch shell no longer blew to summon the people together, but from all over the island, leaving their goats and gardens behind, the people came flocking to watch the carpenters at work. Not since the days of the Bounty mutineers had Pitcairn Island made such an ado over a building. The island was getting a new schoolhouse, and with it, its first properly trained teacher.
It was a lot of progress for Pitcairn to swallow. For one thing, it would mean giving up the old schoolhouse that John Adams, last of the mutineers, had...
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