WEBLIVINGHISTORY

We will be at Minter Elementary for our 9th appearance in 6 years on Friday, May 2 at 11:30 am for a special program for the entire 4th grade. This is a prelude to our visit with them in the 5th grade this coming fall.

	The Living History Team from the McLaws Camp presents programs to Fayette and surrounding area schools, both public and private. We have also presented programs for local Home School groups. Our programs are geared for 5th, and 8th grade students. Elementary school programs are presented indoors and feature sketches, and stories of soldier life during the War Between the States. Students participate in portraying Fayette County Confederate soldiers as they go from volunteers (and draftees) to training to combat. They experience and hear the stories of disease, hunger, supply problems, homesickness, and the other adventures and experiences that all soldiers of the period struggled with. We compare and contrast each situation with the experiences of Union soldiers as we go through the program which concludes with an emphasis on the physical cost of the war and the involvement of both young boys, and old men. Finally they see their "company" reduced to a small handful of men as the surrender of Southern forces take place.Middle school programs are held outside from January through March and feature a full scale military Camp complete with tents, a wagon, an occasional full scale artillery piece when available, drums, and much more. The highlight of these shows are the company and battalion drills. Students learn to function as Captains and NCO's and lead their fellow students on marches, and then combat maneuvers.Over the past 6 years we have presented these programs to approximately 11,000 students. We have presented at Kedron, Burch, Tyrone, East Fayette, Flat Rock Middle, Minter, Brooks, and Spring Hill Elems., Rising Starr, Fayette Middle School, J.C. Booth Middle, and Our Lady of Victory Catholic, Shoal Creek Adventist,Evans Middle School of Newnan and Landmark Christian Schools. The Living History Team consists of Scott Gilbert, Jim Rector, Mitch Crabbe, James Roberts, Roy Butts, Joshua Gilbert and on occasion James Pollard and David Ellis of the Henry Co. SCV: Tom Redwine and Dan Loftin of Coweta Co. SCV.

		Rising Starr Middle School, Feb. 27, 2009