This Friday, Flomaton High School gym will be teeming with students dressed as historical figures, presenting pictures, discussing events and many more aspects of local, state, national and world history as the third annual Flomaton High School History Fair begins at 8 a.m. The event will end around 2 p.m. and is open to public.
The project began when FHS government teacher Brett Chancery asked Principal Scott Hammond about putting on a history fair three years ago. When Chancery left the school, teachers Danielle Wallace, Angela Wright and Alison Britt collaborated together to organize it.
Students in the 10th and 11th grades write research papers on a subject the first month, then spend the second month bringing together various artifacts, items, and pictures for a grade, so it takes several months to get ready.
The students' papers are graded by an English teacher and the history boards and all elements involved are graded by a history teacher. The departments collaborate to guide the students in organizing and grading projects featured the event.
“There will be vendors from Mobile, Pensacola, Century and Brewton and surrounding areas, bringing local, national and world history to life,” said teacher and organizer Angela Wright. “The Flomaton Railroad Museum sand Century's Alger Sullivan Museum will have representatives here, as well as representatives from the Coastal Alabama Community College and University of West Florida's history departments.”
Wright said students will be dressed in time appropriate clothing and history boards will display aspects and events of history from colonial times to modern day in chronological order, featuring different stations where guests can participate and learn.
She said students dressed as pioneers, in antebellum clothing, as flappers, even as confederate soldiers will be giving tours to guests, and there will be old equipment, weapons, books and artifacts to see.
Wright said this year will feature some antique vehicles that were not there last year and there will be food and drink vendors there, selling and giving away concessions.
“We have a lot of them that are going all out,” said Wright. “I think it will be really cool when they get all the stuff together.”
