When the Little Red Schoolhouse door closed Saturday in Bay Minette, fourth- and fifth-grade students at Pine Grove and Delta Elementary schools were catapulted to 1921.

Each desk contains a small chalk tablet and a primer. A potbelly stove sits in the corner with a pail containing boiled Irish potatoes for lunch.

Nearby is a wood pail and a stool with a “dunce” cone for misbehaving students.

Harriet Outlaw, a special projects coordinator for the Baldwin County Board of Education, portrays a school teacher each week in the fully restored, one-room school at the BOE Central Office where students from across the county get a three-hour glimpse of 1920s education during a living history re-enactment.

On Saturday, video crews were on hand to preserve the presentation for airing on the Baldwin County Commission’s public access channel, available to all cable subscribers in the county.

The video presentation should begin running in May.

Also on hand for the video session were Jerome and Benjamin Watson who attended the school and volunteered to provide oral history recordings.

Sam Watson also will narrate part of the video, according to Outlaw.

Their grandmother, Rebecca Tompkins, was a former teacher at the school.

An historic marker has been ordered and will be unveiled when the video segment begins airing, Outlaw said.

“It will be a tribute to the small, community schools and the families who build them,” Outlaw said.