Students Relive The Past - WLOX.com - The News for South Mississippi
Member Center:
Teachers and students turned bay the hands of time more than 80 years. The playground at North Bay Elementary became a virtual city of the past.
"This is the culmination of a year-long study," music instructor Jean Foster said. "We have been studying our place our heritage, so today we celebrate Bay St. Louis in the 1920. We spent a year studying our culture, studying our roots, studying everything we could find out about Bay St. Louis."
The lessons gave students a chance to experience the past up close. Students saw everything from the days of silent movies to life and the old rules governing the beach front.
"When the ladies and men went swimming, the men had big shirts on and a rope tied around their waste to keep it on, and ladies had swim suits up to their wrists and their leg part going up to their knee," first grader Aubrey Pohl said.
"I learned how the kids in the 1920's lived and what they did and the games they played," third grader Amira Elhamaki said.
School leaders say the whole school initiative gives students a chance to not only learn about their hometown history but experience it first-hand.
By Al Showers
Even with occasional flooding, like they're experiencing now, many longtime river residents say they wouldn't live anywhere else.
More >>Even with occasional flooding, like they're experiencing now, many longtime river residents say they wouldn't live anywhere else.
More >>The situation is critical for a dolphin that has been trapped in Old Fort Bayou for more than two weeks, according to officials with the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies.
More >>The situation is critical for a dolphin that has been trapped in Old Fort Bayou for more than two weeks, according to officials with the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies.
More >>U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker wants more ships for the Navy, and that could mean more contracts for shipbuilders here on the coast.
More >>U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker wants more ships for the Navy, and that could mean more contracts for shipbuilders here on the coast.
More >>When you combine a low lying area, and up to eight inches of rain in one day, flooding is bound to happen.
More >>When you combine a low lying area, and up to eight inches of rain in one day, flooding is bound to happen.
More >>The D’Iberville Fire Department had to send a canoe to rescue two men after they drove around a barrier blocking a flooded road and got stuck.
More >>The D’Iberville Fire Department had to send a canoe to rescue two men after they drove around a barrier blocking a flooded road and got stuck.
More >>A convicted child molester moved next door to his victim when he was released from jail, and there is no law preventing him from doing so.
More >>A convicted child molester moved next door to his victim when he was released from jail, and there is no law preventing him from doing so.
More >>A Shreveport man caught this on camera at a 24-hour McDonald's restaurant on Mansfield Road.
More >>A Shreveport man caught this on camera at a 24-hour McDonald's restaurant on Mansfield Road.
More >>Five people are in custody and one person is dead after being shot late Wednesday night.
More >>Five people are in custody and one person is dead after being shot late Wednesday night.
More >>It's not all that unusual to see deer this time of the year, especially in rural West Tennessee.
More >>It's not all that unusual to see deer this time of the year, especially in rural West Tennessee.
More >>Nolan McCabe of St. Louis, Missouri, died after he was struck by debris washed in by high surf, according to deputies.
More >>Nolan McCabe of St. Louis, Missouri, died after he was struck by debris washed in by high surf, according to deputies.
More >>A house featured on HGTV's Fixer Upper has been put on the market and the price tag is turning heads.
More >>A house featured on HGTV's Fixer Upper has been put on the market and the price tag is turning heads.
More >>Torrential rain from Tropical Storm Cindy may unleash floating islands of fire ants.
More >>Torrential rain from Tropical Storm Cindy may unleash floating islands of fire ants.
More >>There are multiple reports of damage from folks in west Jefferson County, Alabama after a possible tornado touched down near Fairfield as the remnants of Tropical Storm Cindy passed through Thursday afternoon.
More >>There are multiple reports of damage from folks in west Jefferson County, Alabama after a possible tornado touched down near Fairfield as the remnants of Tropical Storm Cindy passed through Thursday afternoon.
More >>French authorities are investigating the death of a fitness blogger reportedly hit by an exploding whipped cream canister that was withdrawn from the market in 2013, officials and the company that makes the product...
More >>French authorities are investigating the death of a fitness blogger reportedly hit by an exploding whipped cream canister that was withdrawn from the market in 2013, officials and the company that makes the product said Thursday.
More >> |  208 DeBuys Road
Biloxi, MS 39531 (228) 896-1313
All content © Copyright 2000 - 2017 Raycom Media. All Rights Reserved. For more information on this site, please read our Privacy Policy, and Terms of Service, and Ad Choices.
|
