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Keeler Tavern Museum
Keeler Tavern is an 18th-century building that now serves as a living history museum. Students, scouts, homeschoolers, and campers can see changing exhibits, historical furnishings and objects, and the 1915 Cass Gilbert Garden House which overlooks the walled garden. Tours are led by costumed docents, who lead groups through richly-themed rooms that portray life in rural Connecticut across three centuries of historical change. Groups might also be shown the cannonball still lodged in an outer wall of the museum!
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Hrs: Wed., Sat. & Sun. 1PM-4PM, & By appointment.
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Living History Lesson Plan
FUN FACTS
Two hundred thousand Civil War soldiers were boys no older than 16, and an estimated 300 women were brave enough to disguise themselves as men and fight in the war. The average soldier weighed only 145 pounds due to poor diet, long marches, disease, and tough living, and earned between $13-$16 per month. Reading about these facts is interesting, but actually living them makes the information come alive. Living History Centers can allow students to experience how people lived during important historical eras, including enlisting as a soldier during the Civil War.
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Keeler Tavern Museum
Keeler Tavern is an 18th-century building that now serves as a living history museum. Students, scouts, homeschoolers, and campers can see changing exhibits, historical furnishings and objects, and the 1915 Cass Gilbert Garden House which overlooks the walled garden. Tours are led by costumed docents, who lead groups through richly-themed rooms that portray life in rural Connecticut across three centuries of historical change. Groups might also be shown the cannonball still lodged in an outer wall of the museum!
contact info
Hrs: Wed., Sat. & Sun. 1PM-4PM, & By appointment.
HELPFUL LESSON PLAN(S)
Prepared by FieldTripDirectory.com
Living History Lesson Plan
FUN FACTS
Two hundred thousand Civil War soldiers were boys no older than 16, and an estimated 300 women were brave enough to disguise themselves as men and fight in the war. The average soldier weighed only 145 pounds due to poor diet, long marches, disease, and tough living, and earned between $13-$16 per month. Reading about these facts is interesting, but actually living them makes the information come alive. Living History Centers can allow students to experience how people lived during important historical eras, including enlisting as a soldier during the Civil War.
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Keeler Tavern Museum
Keeler Tavern is an 18th-century building that now serves as a living history museum. Students, scouts, homeschoolers, and campers can see changing exhibits, historical furnishings and objects, and the 1915 Cass Gilbert Garden House which overlooks the walled garden. Tours are led by costumed docents, who lead groups through richly-themed rooms that portray life in rural Connecticut across three centuries of historical change. Groups might also be shown the cannonball still lodged in an outer wall of the museum!
contact info
Hrs: Wed., Sat. & Sun. 1PM-4PM, & By appointment.
HELPFUL LESSON PLAN(S)
Prepared by FieldTripDirectory.com
Living History Lesson Plan
FUN FACTS
Two hundred thousand Civil War soldiers were boys no older than 16, and an estimated 300 women were brave enough to disguise themselves as men and fight in the war. The average soldier weighed only 145 pounds due to poor diet, long marches, disease, and tough living, and earned between $13-$16 per month. Reading about these facts is interesting, but actually living them makes the information come alive. Living History Centers can allow students to experience how people lived during important historical eras, including enlisting as a soldier during the Civil War.
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Keeler Tavern Museum
Keeler Tavern is an 18th-century building that now serves as a living history museum. Students, scouts, homeschoolers, and campers can see changing exhibits, historical furnishings and objects, and the 1915 Cass Gilbert Garden House which overlooks the walled garden. Tours are led by costumed docents, who lead groups through richly-themed rooms that portray life in rural Connecticut across three centuries of historical change. Groups might also be shown the cannonball still lodged in an outer wall of the museum!
contact info
Hrs: Wed., Sat. & Sun. 1PM-4PM, & By appointment.
HELPFUL LESSON PLAN(S)
Prepared by FieldTripDirectory.com
Living History Lesson Plan
FUN FACTS
Two hundred thousand Civil War soldiers were boys no older than 16, and an estimated 300 women were brave enough to disguise themselves as men and fight in the war. The average soldier weighed only 145 pounds due to poor diet, long marches, disease, and tough living, and earned between $13-$16 per month. Reading about these facts is interesting, but actually living them makes the information come alive. Living History Centers can allow students to experience how people lived during important historical eras, including enlisting as a soldier during the Civil War.
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