History lesson
Published 8:42 am Friday, May 19, 2017
Fourth-graders at Woodlawn Elementary School had a triple field trip Thursday morning, as they visited historic locations around downtown Danville.
The students participated in a scavenger hunt at Constitution Square, the “birthplace of Kentucky;” and toured Jacobs Hall Museum at the Kentucky School for the Deaf and the McDowell House Museum.
The students wrapped up their eventful morning with lunch at Millennium Park.
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Docent Betty Baker teaches students in Mrs. Pierson’s fourth-grade class about medicine in the days of Ephraim McDowell while standing behind the counter of the McDowell House’s apothecary room.
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Docent Tiffany Nash shows students in Ms. Mill’s fourth-grade class how a sundial can be used to tell time in the McDowell House’s garden.
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Fourth-graders in Ms. Mill’s class look inside a well in the McDowell House’s garden.
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Docent Tiffany Nash shows students a key that would have been used to unlock a dresser inside the McDowell House.
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Docent Mary Fran Melton points out details about items hanging on the walls of the library in the McDowell House.