With the school year drawing to a close, Penn Middle School teachers Mr. Steve Weir and Mr. Chad Waszo wanted to wrap up their 8th-grade Social Studies lessons with a blast. The Penn-Trafford teachers arranged with the Civil War reenactor group, 4th US Light Artillery Battery F, to give their students a real, live history lesson. The reenactors dressed in Civil War uniforms, demonstrated how soldiers lived and fought in that period, and even fired a real cannon, giving the students a unique history lesson.
"Preparing for our annual year-end trip to Gettysburg, this gave our students a small but powerful sample of the sites and sounds that soldiers and civilians would have experienced," commented Mr. Weir.
The reenactors set up their equipment on the Penn Middle School grounds
The reenactors fire a cannon