2010-02-18 / News

Revolutionary Days visits schools


Fourth graders at Washington-Wilkes Elementary School listen raptly as George Thurmond of the Sons of the American Revolution describes Wilkes County during the Revolution and how the Battle of Kettle Creek affected the American fight for liberty. The fourth-graders’ Georgia history coursework has them studying the Revolution this semester, their teachers say. “This makes it more meaningful for them.” Fourth graders at Washington-Wilkes Elementary School listen raptly as George Thurmond of the Sons of the American Revolution describes Wilkes County during the Revolution and how the Battle of Kettle Creek affected the American fight for liberty. The fourth-graders’ Georgia history coursework has them studying the Revolution this semester, their teachers say. “This makes it more meaningful for them.”

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