Fast forward a generation this is the one room schoolhouse, Oak Grove, where my father went to a one room schoolhouse.

They also built a schoolhouse, and formed athletic, boating, and baseball clubs.

The government lodge, schoolhouse and the hostel, where the Governor's representative lives, have all been renovated.

Today there is an Alfred Wegener Memorial site and tourist information office in a nearby building that was once the local schoolhouse.

The bloody end to the schoolhouse hostage crisis in North Ossetia, and recent clashes in Georgia between government troops and separatist forces, have put the troubled Black Sea region on the front pages of newspapers once again.