Clarendon residents teach local history to Holley fourth graders

Fourth grader Ashley Nenni watches as Sandy Moy shows how yarn was spun. Holley students learned local history from a group of Clarendon volunteers.

Clarendon residents teach local history to Holley fourth graders

Holley fourth graders left their modern classroom and headed to Clarendon's one-room schoolhouse to learn about local history from Supervisor Richard Moy. The activities included a tour of the farm museum, which features many pieces of equipment and items used by Clarendon's early residents. Bruce Wohlers taught the students the significance of American Square Dancing and how it incorporates the dances from several different cultures.

The students stopped at "Teachers Rock" along the wooded trail behind the schoolhouse, where they were invited to "set a while" and listen to resident Jim Moore, who attended the schoolhouse and recounted a lesson he learned about the Paleo Indians, who were thought to have inhabited the area.