Education
    Full-Day Programs

 

Full day programs that include multiple presentations and staff members. Students will spend a day experiencing what life was like during that historical era.

                                       

NATIVE AMERICAN DAY

Spend a day exploring the many different cultures of the Eastern Woodlands.  Come explore how the first residents of our area hunted, farmed, played and prospered in a world with no draft animals, metallurgy, or alphabet. 

 

COLONIAL DAY

Rotating stations with a wide variety of hands-on programs and activities. Options include quill pen writing, textile production, early medicine, military drill, period clothing, tin punch, churning butter, toys and games.

 

CIVIL WAR DAY

Rotating hands-on stations focus on medicine, munitions, communication technology, games, military drill, European and African dance, and period clothing to reflect military and civilian life.

 

WORLD WAR II DAY

Rotating stations provide hands-on insight into both civilian and military life. Civilian life is reflected in numerous home front exercises focusing on rationing and volunteer services such as plane spotting. Military aspects are revealed in military gear, munitions exercises, and the stories of local heroes in both the European and Pacific theaters.




Students dressed in WWII uniforms

Photo by Rachel Drumheller