Kids Day Event

Youth is the future but history is important to understand. Badger Steam and Gas Engine Club member Paul Young in 2006 invited all 4th Grade students and teachers in the Baraboo School on field trip to the grounds to experience the past way of life, “the way our ancestors used equipment to make their lives easier”.

This tradition continues today. Students and teachers are separated into small groups and are led by 35 different Docents to enjoy hands on stations throughout the grounds. Through many stations they get to experience push lawn mowers, corn shelling and grinding, the wood shop, the boiler house, stationary steam engine building, hand water pumps, making a Thunderbird plaque, and in the Women’s building. There groups have 4 different stations to make and taste butter, measuring baking ingredients for biscuits, old fashioned rotary telephones and seeing yarn and weaving. After they complete a very busy round of stations, they are treated to ice cream.

A big Thank you goes to all the club volunteers who were docents, staffed stations and those who helped with setup and tear down. Thank you also to the Baraboo School District, the Baraboo 4th grade teachers and chaperones and the bus drivers. We enjoy sharing history and having the opportunity for the kids to have an amazing day!