Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 18:06:07 +0000 (UTC) From: Marcella Braski <mbraski@yahoo.com> Message-ID: <916295654.383638.1438625167985.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: School Tours
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a jackknife. Milk the cow: dropped the knife between a curved finger i
nto a circle in the sand. Flip the knife, once, twice plus and into a circl
e. Over the shoulder etc. If the knife stuck you got a point, play to
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From: Mary & Mike Weynand <weynand@netwurx.net>
To: localhistory@listserve.uwec.edu; Mary Beth Gehl <marybethgehl@gmail.co
m>; Ken and Jayne Chapman <chapkj@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 3:26 PM
Subject: School Tours
Our Old Village Hall Museum in Neosho, sponsored by the Neosho/Rubicon Hi
storical Society, conducts a number of school tours, normally in May.
They tend to be groups of 4th and/or 5th graders. We were discussing
improvements to our customized tour for that age group. We have disp
lays including an old one room school area and a mercantile store of the 18
00's in which we interact with the students by comparing the current method
s with the way their grandparents and great-grandparents went about their s
imilar activities. We had thought about providing a comparison of the
games played "back then" with what the children, with their electronic gam
es, play with now. Is there a book that provides instructions on how
to make and/or play these old games and/or a source in which we can acquire
some old games for the students to play? Are their any historical so
cieties who might have duplicates and would be interested in donating them
to us?
One of our goals is to continuously improve and change our museum to best
represent life in the past in our local area. You your help would be
greatly appreciated.