Venture; Ropers Mountain

Drive to the early 1900s with the school children find out how American life has changed. Hello and welcome to venture I'm Angela Cox and this is Daisy. She lives here at Roker mountain near Greenville. This is a living history farm. As far as she's concerned it's the early 1900s. We're trying to show not a rich farmer and not a real poor farmer kind of your average kind of. Farm family here in this part of Lingle. I mean I have to ask you to use your imagination a bit. It's a little difficult to cut out the sounds of the highway over there in time an airplane buzzes by overhead. But I do want you to try to use your imaginations and perhaps pretend that this is like a time machine and that we're going to travel back into the past. These fifth graders are from the Greenville area rather than being in a classroom studying

history. They come here where the history has come alive. The cotton away from the sea is like a plucking out. That's right. All around it you don't have to get real quick. It doesn't make a difference when it goes in the ground. In addition to getting hands on experience picking seeds out of cotton the students see how the American kitchen has evolved during the past 200 years. It's. Like. You know like the heart. Of the bird. And what she would do would be to draw the fire the hot and she would step into the side edge. And then she would reply OK I covered up the cover has. That and that's just like a nothing beyond the Log Cabin is the barnyard infield. It's obvious by the way the students walk that they haven't had a lot of experience dodging

cow patties. Along with the coward to pics also on the farm is a sheep to. This Living History farm which is just one part of the Roper mountain Science Center. Give students a chance to have fun and learn at the same time. But they don't get to as a classroom experience completely a 111 year old school room is also located on the farm. This classroom is a lot different from the one they know instead of computers. It's a chalkboard and an early American textbook.

Readers were used all of. The. Our primary focus here living history farm is for students of the entire upstate. We have groups come from all over but the the living history farm is also open to the public. Every first Saturday of the march for that that we use a number of volunteers who are out doing things are either making soap or or cooking they cook an entire meal over the fireplace. The schoolmaster is here that day so the general public is invited to come out.

Are there many living history farms around today. There are several in the state and South Carolina we have the Charleston museum and many of course historic sites and then at some of the state parks we have on your farm. Simple here and everything that's done makes sense from spinning cotton. Just this quiet haven some more complicated complex society the world we live in today. But being here. Travelling into the past. Makes one aware of just how much things can change.