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The Heartland Museum in Clarion opened its doors to young kids for a four-hour history day on Tuesday, June 23, 2015.
Volunteer Normajene Collier said the museum expected about 20 children. Seven came, and they made up for the small turnout with plenty of enthusiasm.
Each child got a bag and nametag. Luke Odland started them making journal covers, explaining that real historians had to document everything they found. Mary Tesdahl helped Odland plan the crafts for the day.
Then the group moved to the front porch, where Melanie Maasdam had brought old gourds from home to make birdhouses. The kids scrubbed them in tubs of water, dried them, cut a quarter-sized hole in the side so a bird could get in, and pulled out the seeds.
Jill Ostrander writes for Clarion News Online.