Students take expedition through Long Island's past

Students in the Adventures in Local History program at Levittown Public School District took an educational exhibition to various sites throughout Long Island.

The five-day trip involved interactive experiences at locales that have historical significance. Day one took the group to the Smithtown Historical Society, where they learned about colonial life on Long Island. They creating personalized tavern signs, wrote notes with quills and made candles in clay pots.

On day two, students performed teambuilding exercises and crafted dolls made of cornhusks at the Brookville Environmental Education Center. Next, the group made their way to the Vanderbilt Museum on day three. There, they saw x-rays and CT scans of a 3,000-year-old mummy in its original sarcophagus.

The final two visits took students to the Huntington Historical Society and the Cradle of Aviation Museum, where they participated in colonial-era activities with tools like looms with spinning wheels and learned about early flight on Long Island. They also watched the film “Ocean Odyssey” in the aviation museum’s planetarium.