Second Graders Visit Museum
It would be difficult to find a group of students more curious and spirited than second graders. On the morning of October 17th, thirty-six pupils from Stillwater School were led single file across Stillwater Road by teachers Lynda Collier, Kerri LoCicero and Michele Byrd.
Splitting into small groups the children were greeted by volunteers of the Historical Society. Phyllis McGeehan and Shelly Vosper introduced some of the early technical conveniences used by Stillwater ancestors including an ice box, a functioning victrola and a crank-style telephone. Upstairs John McGeehan introduced some of the farming implements used when most of the Stillwater residents were farmers.
Rob Jacoby talked about the Lenape people who were the “original people” who had lived in the area for more than 10,000 years before the European settlers arrived in the 1500’s. He allowed the children to handle some of the stone implements and weapons that had been excavated locally by archeologists.
