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Education committee says 7,000 students visited history exhibits during 400th celebration
Summary
Council members and committee leaders credited the education committee with creating bus tours, training docents and producing materials that introduced thousands of students to Hampton history as part of the 400th-anniversary outreach.
Councilwoman Angela Leary and other committee members described an education-focused element of the city's 400th-anniversary program that targeted schoolchildren and seniors with tours, docent programs and curriculum-support materials.
"The tour linked Hampton with national history beginning with Fort Monroe's Casemate Museum," Leary said, recounting work to create docent training and a new manual to support tours; speakers noted that "7,000 plus schoolchildren" were taken through the museum and that the committee set aside a $12,000 neighborhood grant fund with requests of up to $1,000 for smaller community events tied to the anniversary.
