Summer Youth Program


"Experience history firsthand"

Annual summer youth classes give students in grades 3 through 7 an opportunity to explore our unique history and try their hand at skills, trades, and games common in the late 1800s.  Classes are small and hands-on.  Click here for registration form

Games Of Long Ago

A Summer Day of Work and Play

Students entering grades 3-5

Learn about games children played such as quoits, marbles, jacks and graces.  Make a game to take home.

$15 per student

August 4......... 9 am - 12 pm

Students entering grades 3-5

Find out about the chores children did in the late 1800s like laundry and making butter.  Take a pretend trip to Githens Store for penny candy and make a tin lantern to take home.

$15 per student

August 7......... 9 am - 12 pm
August 8......... 9 am - 12 pm

A School Day the Old Time Way

Stories in the Stones

Students entering grades 3-5

Imagine sitting in a one-room schoolhouse learning to cipher (do math) on  a slate, writing with a pen dipped in ink, reading from an old reader and eating your snack from a metal lunch pail.

$15 per student

August 14......... 9 am - 12 pm
August 15......... 9 am - 12 pm

Students entering grades 3-5

You've never been on a scavenger hunt quite like this. Explore two local cemeteries filled with secrets to Centerville's past.  Enjoy sketching, taking gravestone rubbings and searching for clues.  A snack will be provided

$15 per student

August 5......... 9 am - 12 pm
August 11......... 9 am - 12 pm

Picturing Our Past

  Students entering grades 5-7

Do you love to draw and paint? Explore our rich history using various art materials and techniques to study local architecture and artifacts.

$60 per student

July 21-15......... 9 am - 12 pm

 

 

Classes are held at the Asahel Wright Community Center.  Contact Jean Simpson at 291-2223 or jeancwths@sbcglobal.net with questions.

Click here for registration form.