PES students go full frontier for a day
Dan Smit… I mean… John Collins addresses the fourth-grade students at Pinehurst Elementary School during their annual Mountain Man Rendezvous.
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Pinehurst Elementary School fourth-grade teacher Mrs. Derbyshire, engages students in a game of chance similar to how the frontier men of old days would gamble, during the school's Mountain Man Rendezvous.
PINEHURST — The annual Mountain Man Rendezvous at Pinehurst Elementary School was last week as the students got to participate in a fun-filled day prior to school letting out for spring break.
The event is part of the school’s fourth-grade curriculum and includes a living history lesson, a skills fair of sorts — complete with foot races, tug-of-war, silent bartering, gambling, hatchet throwing (substituting markers for hatchets) and “fur” trading...
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