Today was a very interesting day. I spent most of the day outside with the majority of the senior class for the "Revolutionary War Living History Day." Basically, all the Honors Government students and anybody who had the Honors Gov. teacher last year gets together and sets up a bunch of stations to teach area fourth and fifth graders about Ohio's only Revolutionary War fort (Fort Laurens). The program is really elaborate and fantastic. This year the teacher got a $50,000 dollar grant from the state of Ohio, and believe me, he put it to use. The program has authentic costumes, equipment, guns, EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN. They have a printing press, a trebuchet, a working cannon, muskets galore, all kinds of authentic tents and furniture, and surveying equipment. They even brought in a horse this year! One cool thing that they're doing with the program, starting this year, is taking it on the road. They'll get to go to Marietta, Ohio, Cincinnati, Columbus (performing in the lawn of the Statehouse, no less!), and possibly Mount Vernon.
My station was "writing letters home to Ma and Pa," which was the easiest station to work because you didn't have to interact with anyone and you pretty much just stand around all day. It was still so interesting seeing everything going on at once.
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