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The Review July 21, 2015
Connecting to the past BY JERMAINE PIGEE
STERLING – While many students are relaxing their brains during summer break, a small group of kids are spending the week learning about Sterling’s connections to the Civil War. As part of the weeklong Junior Historian program at Lincoln Learning Center, a group of local students visited Riverside Cemetery in Sterling to see grave sites of Civil War soldiers from Sterling and surrounding areas. “We have a purpose to get students interested in our area’s history,” said Peg Albert, a member of the SterlingRock Falls Historical Society. “We are here to find soldiers who served in the Civil War and are buried here.” The focus of this year’s program is life in the 1860s and the Civil War. In addition to visiting the cemetery, students learned about a soldier’s daily life from Tim Tedrick, a Civil War re-enactor. They also played games, sang songs, and participated in other activities inspired by that era. Among the graves students visited
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were those of Col. Robert Wilson, a former lawmaker from Sterling and friend of Abraham Lincoln, and John Galt Manahan, who was admitted to the Illinois Bar in 1868 and joined Col. William Kilgour, a prominent lawyer of that time, to specialize in patent law. Brenden Stanley, a 9-year-old who attends Lincoln Elementary School in Sterling, enjoyed spending time at the cemetery. “We get to see our ancestors,” he said. “We were able to learn about some famous people.” When the kids got to each site, they used black crayons and newsprint to Photos by Alex T. Paschal/ make rubbings of the local Civil War solJudy Dennis rubs a crayon across the headstone of William Manahan on Wednesdiers’ gravestones. “Some of the students have also been day under the watchful eye of Lincoln Elementary School student Brenden Stanley. cleaning the tombstones with water,” Albert said. • Full Service Optical Lab They also placed a small flag at each grave site to honor the soldiers’ service • Contact Lenses (including bifocal & specialty lensees) in war. “It was pretty fun,” said Espen • Comprehensive Eye Health Examss Hammes, a 9-year-old from St. Mary • Diagnosis/Treatment of Eye Diiseassess School in Sterling. “We get to do something that we don’t get to do that often.” • Great Selection of Eyeglass Frames
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Reagan Hammes, 7, takes a closer look at coffee beans held out by Peg Albert on Monday morning at the Lincoln Learning Center. The beans were part of a traveling trunk full of Civil War-era memorabilia to be used for teaching purposes.
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