History Comes Alive for Morgantown & North Butler Students
MES student getting to fire the gun.
Story and pictures by Beverly Bonilla
On Wednesday, April 2, the Butler County Family Resource Center and the Butler County Youth Service Center hosted a “History of Butler County” field trip for the children at Morgantown Elementary and North Butler Elementary. Each group visited at Woodbury, Butler County Board of Education, Butler County Courthouse, Rochester Park and Provo Rural Development.
Tommy Hines giving tour of museum.
In Rochester the children were able to visit Rochester Dam and at Provo Rural Development they were shown the Provo one room schoolhouse. Each place was set up with a display that would take about 30 minutes. At Woodbury it took a little longer because there was so much to do. Tommy Hines would take a group on a tour of the historic buildings while Lloyd Saylor took the kids to learn about the different wars and the guns used in those wars. Members came from Crittenden County 4-H with the Early American Heritage Project. The men and women were dressed in authentic clothing for that period and travel all over. The ladies showed the children how to make fried apple pies and each child was able to fill their own dough and take it over to be fried, a quick sweet treat. The men of Crittenden County 4-H talked to the children about the wars and the weapons used during those wars. The children were very interested in what they were learning and were very well behaved.
Ladies of Early American Heritage Project.
The Green River Museum is a great way to learn all kinds of Butler County History. If you would like information on the museum, you can contact Tommy Hines at 270-526-5342 or go to greenrivermuseum.org.
