Community remembers Mary Alice Seelbinder - The Citizen

Community remembers Mary Alice Seelbinder - The Citizen

Mary Alice Seelbinder at the Old Mill in 1996. Photo: Provided Ortonville— Once a vibrant one-room schoolhouse in rural Brandon Township, the Mann School educated local children from 1879 to 1943 before falling into decades of abandonment. But for local resident Mary Alice Seelbinder, the small structure not only echoed late 19th and early 20th-century American education, it also represented a community. Mary Alice, a founding member of the Orto…