Spring
in the 1850s Friday, April 14, 2007 - Sunday, April
28, 2007
Westville
blooms during its annual Spring Festival with crafts, games, music, and
fun. Visitors are introduced to the South's pre-industrial agricultural
society as they watch mules, men and women demonstrate historical spring
activities such as plowing, planting, and preparing the gardens.
Also,
school is in session at Westville's Academy -- where school children from
Georgia, Florida, and Alabama will experience what school was like in
the 1850s. These scholars, dressed in period costumes, are provided with
slate pencils and slate boards on which to write, and replica McGuffy
Readers which enable them to participate in classes and games indicative
of that period.
Westville
blooms during its annual Spring Festival with crafts, games, music, and
fun. Visitors are introduced to the South's pre-industrial agricultural
society as they watch mules, men and women demonstrate historical spring
activities such as plowing, planting, and preparing the gardens. 
Also,
school is in session at Westville's Academy -- where school children from
Georgia, Florida, and Alabama will experience what school was like in
the 1850s. These scholars, dressed in period costumes, are provided with
slate pencils and slate boards on which to write, and replica McGuffy
Readers which enable them to participate in classes and games indicative
of that period.