Students visit Rendezvous

The Jennings Creek Council Rendezvous opened on Friday, September 7, to provide an educational session for area schools. St Mary of the Assumption School grades 4, 5, and 6 took advantage of this opportunity to learn some pioneer history of the Ohio Valley. By class, they visited various reenactment camps of trappers and settlers who shared the skills and goods of the frontier and told about the bartering that made their lives endurable. The children learned about weapons, coppersmithing, weaving, games, trapping, and the fur trade, and making every form of necessity with tools and materials at hand. After all the demonstrations the students had a “frontier” lunch and experienced some weather before returning to schools.