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We are pleased to offer to your class our very special new school program: School of the Piece Program.
This program was developed for 4th and 5th graders to aide Kentucky children in understanding the significance of the American Civil War and the wars effect upon Kentucky. The program can be modified for older groups.
Further, children are encouraged to become active in Civil War Site preservation through interactive programs held at the battlefield. The School of the Piece will allow each child to enter into the world of the common Civil War artillerist. Each class will watch a twenty-minute film depicting the history of the battle at Perryville and a video on artillery drill. Then each child is mustered into the army and taught the basic military drill for the use of artillery. At this time children will drill on two artillery cannons. Children are also provided kepis for the day and officers will be issued a uniform. Lunch is taken at our large picnic shelter and after that concludes the children will be walking to where Lt. Charles Parsons’s battery was located on the Open Knob.
Historical and first person accounts are included in this tour. The program will conclude with a trip to the Battlefield Museum and Museum Store. A minimum of four to four and a half hours is needed to complete this program. Please keep participants between the minimum of twenty children.
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