A Real-Life History Lesson

Students in Mark Leaman’s 9th Grade History Class received a real-life history lesson recently. Several seniors from New Holland’s Garden Spot Village Retirement Community came to Garden Spot to meet with the students to share their experiences living through many of the historical events that the students are learning about in their American History course. The students found the experience to be much more meaningful than learning the same information from a textbook or video.

Watch the Blue Ridge Cable’s story about the event below.