Montgomery students traveled 55 miles in time – the messenger of Troy

A group of 24 second graders from Eastwood Christian School in Montgomery took a field trip to the Alabama Pioneer Museum on Thursday.

The students had the opportunity to explore the past with a guided tour of the museum’s indoor exhibit, which shows how Alabama pioneers lived, worked and traveled. Exhibits also feature Native American Indians, Native Americans, military displays, and a town village, dental office, drug store, and other downtown businesses.

The young museum visitors also toured the buildings on the grounds, including a family cabin, a Red Riding Hood school and a demonstration cabin.

Eastwood Christian teacher Wendy Patterson said visiting the Alabama Pioneer Museum was a fun, learning experience for the young students and for her.

“I’ve passed the museum many times but never stopped to visit. It’s a wonderful museum of pioneer history,” Patterson said.

As for her students, Patterson said that after reading the children’s book “Grass, Field and Height,” about a farming family, and then visiting the Pioneer Museum, the second-graders had a better understanding of what pioneer life was like. as a.

“A visit to the Alabama Pioneer Museum allows children who grew up on a farm years ago to learn what daily life was like and what life was like for pioneer children.

The students, especially the pioneer children, were interested in going to a one-room school and sitting at different tables and learning to read from different books,” Patterson said. “They were surprised that there were different types of wagons and passengers and that the coffin was very small.

The children were wide-eyed when they heard that they had to go outside in the dark of night, often sleeping in the same bed.

The students marveled at the work of a blacksmith, the size of a steam locomotive, and the fact that such well-crafted cornbread could be baked in a wood-fired oven.

Barbara Tatum, museum director, said the students were attentive and well-behaved.

“Here, at the Alabama Pioneer Museum, we are always proud to have young people come and learn more about Alabama’s pioneer history, learn from it, and gain a greater appreciation for the contributions pioneers made to our way of life today.