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School Days Living History
August 23 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Lewis and Clark Interpretive Trails and Visitor Center 100 Valmont Dr, Nebraska City, NE 68410
“School Days Living History”
to be held on August 23, 2024
As an educator teaching American history we are confident that you have often wished you could just go back in time show your students just what it was like. We will give you the opportunity to do just that. The time period we offer our experience in is from 1800 to 1850. We will cover the Lewis and Clark Expedition and our American frontier right up to the civil war period. Trained and experienced re enactors will be on site to provide this educational experience for your students. All presenters will be in period correct garb. Many of these individuals are retired educators with degrees in history and many years of re-enacting behind them. This is not a lecture but rather an interaction with these folks as if you had actually gone back in time and stepped into their everyday life.
This is a totally FREE EVENT! This special event will take place at the Lewis and Clark Trails Center, Nebraska City, NE on August 23, 2024 from 9:00 AM through 4:00 PM. We will provide a lunch of Lewis and Clark hotdogs, buns, chips and bottled water with a variety of flavoring packets. Lunch will be served between 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM. If you would like to partake of the lunch we would appreciate an estimated head count including teachers, helpers, bus drivers etc.
For more information contact our office manager Opal at opalm@lewisandclarkvisitorcenter.org or call us at 402-874-9900
Here is a preview of some of the folks who your students will meet and sites they will see.
Here are a couple of short videos of two of our folks in action. NOTE: the sound is not the greatest as the wind was heavy that day.
Experts in all the fields of early 1800s life as soldiers, mountain men, blacksmiths. They will see and be able to get aboard the boats of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. They can experience some hands on training on long lost practices such as fire starting with flint and steel, blacksmithing, river boat management, hides and the part they played on the frontier, early woodworking techniques, and much more.