Kids Learn About Changing Farm Technology in WOW Program at Vesterheim

(Left to right) Riely Horsfall, volunteer Ed Epperly, Lydia Caddell, Ben Wymer and Casey Brickley.

240 Decorah-area third-grade students and their teachers, parents, grandparents and other adults participated in the Window on the World Program this fall at Vesterheim.

Students tried their hands at apple pressing, making rope, shelling and grinding corn, and flailing or hand-threshing grain using tools and machines from the past. The students and accompanying adults also explored more technology and tools of the past on a scavenger hunt in the museum's Painter-Bernatz Mill.

"On behalf of everyone at Vesterheim, I want to thank all those in the community who helped us provide this program to area third graders," said Vesterheim Youth Educator Jennifer Kovarik.