{"id":54809,"date":"2022-11-20T11:01:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T16:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/?p=54809"},"modified":"2022-11-20T11:01:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T16:01:18","slug":"history-feature-teaching-trunk-program-introduces-students-to-souvenirs-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/lifestyle\/history-feature-teaching-trunk-program-introduces-students-to-souvenirs-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"History Feature: Teaching Trunk Program Introduces Students to Souvenirs From the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_54812\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54812\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54812\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/History-Trunks-contain-historical-artifacts.-Photo-courtesy-of-Transylvania-Heritage-Museum-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"938\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/History-Trunks-contain-historical-artifacts.-Photo-courtesy-of-Transylvania-Heritage-Museum-copy.png 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/History-Trunks-contain-historical-artifacts.-Photo-courtesy-of-Transylvania-Heritage-Museum-copy-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/History-Trunks-contain-historical-artifacts.-Photo-courtesy-of-Transylvania-Heritage-Museum-copy-1024x800.png 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/History-Trunks-contain-historical-artifacts.-Photo-courtesy-of-Transylvania-Heritage-Museum-copy-768x600.png 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/History-Trunks-contain-historical-artifacts.-Photo-courtesy-of-Transylvania-Heritage-Museum-copy-810x633.png 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/History-Trunks-contain-historical-artifacts.-Photo-courtesy-of-Transylvania-Heritage-Museum-copy-1140x891.png 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-54812\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trunks full of historical artifacts. Photo courtesy of Transylvania Heritage Museum<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Lauren Stepp<\/p>\n<p>In 1978, Crystal Whitman\u2019s fourth-grade teacher, Exie Wilde Henson, brought a Brazil nut to class. The nut was a token from Henson\u2019s travels through the Amazon jungle, a wild and magical destination some 4,000 miles south of Rosman Elementary School, in Brevard.<\/p>\n<p>As Whitman held the Brazil nut in her hand, she could hear the screeching call of macaws and smell the earthy scent of damp moss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was transported to another world,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_54811\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54811\" class=\"wp-image-54811\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/History-Soybean-farmer-in-Transylvania-County.-Photo-courtesy-of-Transylvania-Heritage-Museum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"262\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-54811\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soybean farmer in Transylvania County. Photo courtesy of Transylvania Heritage Museum<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Decades later, when Whitman took a job at Rosman Elementary, she vowed to honor Henson\u2019s legacy by stoking children\u2019s imaginations. But rather than teach about far-flung places, Whitman wanted her students to learn about the ground beneath her feet. So, she tapped the Teaching Trunk Program.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the Transylvania Heritage Museum, the program allows K-12 teachers in Brevard and adjacent areas to borrow antique chests brimming with historical photos, maps, documents and artifacts. Each trunk is themed, offering lessons on topics like educational practices in the mountains and civil rights in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChildren learn better when they can touch and see history, not just read about it in a book,\u201d says Rebecca Suddeth, museum curator.<\/p>\n<p>According to Suddeth, the museum has long promoted hands-on learning through field trips to the Silvermont Mansion and the Allison-Deaver House. But when economic calamity struck during the 2008 recession, school budgets waned and in-person visits dwindled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe kids could no longer come to us, so we had to figure out how to bring the museum to them,\u201d says Suddeth, who soon partnered with the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina to launch the outreach endeavor.<\/p>\n<p>In the years since then, the roving trunks have traveled to dozens of classrooms, Whitman\u2019s included.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany people say you can go places through books, and I totally agree with that,\u201d says Whitman. \u201cBut I also agree that you can go places through objects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whitman is most familiar with the \u201cTouring Transylvania\u2019s Economy\u201d trunk, which investigates how generations of locals have eked out a living in these hills. The chest includes artifacts like coupon books from the Gloucester Lumber Company Store and postcards of one of the county\u2019s 250 waterfalls.<\/p>\n<p>As students explore the trunk, their goal is to determine what the items say about the local economy. A railroad spike, for instance, tells a story about the tracks that once brought tourists from Hendersonville to Lake Toxaway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou had very wealthy visitors coming here to escape the summer heat,\u201d Suddeth explains. But when the Lake Toxaway dam burst during the catastrophic Flood of 1916, tourism faltered. \u201cPeople had to reinvent themselves,\u201d she says. \u201cThey had to take this bad situation and learn how to make it work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Whitman notes, the Teaching Trunk Program helps students contextualize these historic highs and lows more than a textbook ever could.<br \/>\n\u201cTimes were tough back then,\u201d she says. \u201cBut it\u2019s important for students to be able to understand our little town\u2019s past.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/TransylvaniaHeritage.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TransylvaniaHeritage.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1978, Crystal Whitman\u2019s fourth-grade teacher, Exie Wilde Henson, brought a Brazil nut to class. 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