Field Trip to the Macon County Museum complex in Decatur
What did we see inside the museum?
Harnesses, saddles and other things you might have found in a barn.
A model of a water mill.
The interior of a cabin.
Tools the people might have used.
A rope bed.
What else did we see?
We went to school in a one-room school house.
A bathtub! Ma Sherman, you must be kidding!
Pa Sherman was our teacher
We saw a courthouse where Abraham Lincoln once tried a case when he was a lawyer.
As part of the field trip, we visited a cemetary. Some of Ma Sherman's relatives are buried in the cemetery!
We went to a cemetary where we made a rubbing of a gravestone
Examining the finished rubbing. What does it say?
BOAST volunteer Avram makes the rubbing while BOAST Program Manager, Bobbi, keeps the paper from blowing away.