Bainville Group Experiences Historical Trip
Educational Tours
A group of Bainville High School students recently returned after a trip of learning opportunities that included stops in New York, Boston and Washington, D.C.
The seven students enjoying the experience through the Educational Tours included Elsie Wilson, Chandi Johnson, Kaiden Holmes, Addison Hansen, Hailey Berwick, Tally Berwick and Haedyn Wills.
Parent Kylie Johnston accompanied the students. Teacher April Wills organized the trip. Students from Shelby and Sunburst also were part of the group, which took the trip from June 12-20.
“They were all great,” Kylie Johnston said of the students. “It was a wonderful trip.”
The journey included three days in New York and three days in Washington, D.C.
Stops included outside of the White House and a boat cruise near the Statue of Liberty. Other memorable moments came at the 9/11 memorial museum and U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
An emotional time was at the Vietnam Memorial where Bainville’s students found the name of Bainville native Sgt. Michael W. Picard. The school’s high school football field is dedicated to him.
One of the highlights during the time in Boston was seeing patriot Paul Revere’s house.
“Still 90 percent of the house is originally the same like it was back then,” Johnston said.
Students also received the opportunity to see the USS Constitution, the world’s oldest commissioned naval warship still afloat.
One memory was when the Bainville students were touring the Smithsonian National Museum in Washington, D.C., and they kept searching for the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights without having any luck. They were finally told that those historical documents were located at the National Archives Museum. Johnston said four or five of Bainville’s girls begged a tour guide that they needed to see those documents and were all the way from Bainville, Montana.
“He said that he will just take us so we won’t get lost,” Johnston said.
Other highlights included seeing a Broadway play and running up the “Rocky’s steps” in Philadelphia.
Johnston feels that the program, although not associated with the school, was a definite great learning experience for the group. They started planning and fund raising for the trip about a year ago.
