Nickel Mines, Pa.
The New Hope Amish School held its first classes this week, just a few hundred feet from the site of the one-room schoolhouse where a gunman shot 10 children last October, killing five. The old schoolhouse was torn down after a shooting rampage by milk-truck driver Charles Roberts, who was distraught over the death of his infant daughter and the claimed memory, never corroborated, of having molested his young female cousins as a child. The children of Nickel Mines are “elated they have a new school,” said Dan Baughman, 81, who lives near the schoolhouse. “But nevertheless it’s going to bring back forcefully that day six months ago.”
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