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I' Newsleuef #92 April. 1993 JiUiLi Commuoity E4uc«tioo Profrans by Liz Olson cbsaetav e hat been t |icM Msiovy expcnenoc I i ^ Moceu with smdents from the Orono School District. Our expcfienoet wMh small classes, which fuaramee individuahaed attention MS lesni about the past by workinf with museum artifacts in a structured caviidaant and iKa discuning how they were toed in day-io-day life. The students also have a lot of fwi at canro • dwe's always tomediing to make, or a mess lo help clean-up! This year we've had two Pioneer ump sessions, a one-day camp January 25, and a three day camp the first week of MMch. Winter Play Day was the title of the January program and fun and games were the order of the day. The students prepared venison stew and buttermilk biscuits for their lunch that day. while Linda McGinty and Liz CXson talked widi them about pioneer life. Once the chores were out of the way it was time to play. Bill Cadey. a great entertainer and storyteller, spent the afternoon with the students MloiMDes nom the "good old days”, and of course there was time to playteaching them sonp and outside in our Minnesota snow! Pioneer Canqp in Match was a \onmet program, which allowed for a more in-depth study of the past The studknts qtent one morning ante farm of Hunk Scherer learning about sausage-making They also loured the tractor bam and visited with die herd 0( cows. We had hoped to learn how to tap sugar nubile trees, bu the weMher was too cold for the sq> lo be running. Tom Geelan stopped in to visit the students with his marioiieM e of Abnlmn Uncofat It was amazing how much work goes into making a puppet and how hard kiBMl ba tohMpdm Mringi foon getting tangled up. Studenu modeled ckshing from museum displays for AdiA History Ihqr. Root row: Ariel Dumas, Amy Anderson. Omrie Anderson and Kari Wald. Back row: Vicki Hebzynski, Jeff Carlson. Lindsay Miller, Holly Brown. Sarah Maiser, Kim Bilick and Elizabeth Nadeau. The other activity we all participated in was the creating, directing and acting in an improvisational play. The play was the story of the Wolsfeld Family as they moved from the Old World to Minnesota. The students were divided into four groups and each group was one act of the play. Act One was in the Vitorian Room, where the family made the decision to move to North America. The Music Room vs as the scene of Act Two, where the family was waiting at the steamboat launch fOT the trip up the Mississippi River to St. Anthony. Act Three was in the General Store, where the family bought the provisions ^y thought they'd need at their new homestead. The final scene. Act Four, took place in the log schoolhouse (which had been transformed into a pioneer family home) where the family was finally settled in and entertaining their neighbors. (Programs com. on page \) A M I ■•.Vft %■ ■I W ‘ ■' > il ,v/^ 4•'ii ■A m M m 'V If rtitWr - ■J. --------