Many of today’s pre-teen students never grew up hanging clothes with wooden pins, churning butter or panning for gold. The Kern County Museum takes them back in time, eight times a year with one day interactive "California History Day" and "Living History Day" events, to see how and why it was done. The latest such activity, Feb. 28th’s Living History Day, attracted approximately 800 grades 3-6 students, parents and teachers from Kern County and even as far away as Visalia. "We are in our fourth year of providing this hands-on history experience you cannot get in the classroom," said Jackie Brouillette, the museum’s education and volunteer services manager. "Students get to do things they will remember, such as churning butter and panning for gold. We want to inspire and have them remember what they learned here, so it helps when discussions of early American life come up in the classroom weeks down the road." Docents in historic garb of the day are everywhere. It is a collaborative effort with Valley Oaks Charter School teachers and students and volunteer students from Bakersfield High’s CEO Academy working side-by-side with museum staff and volunteers to lead tours, provide information and demonstrate frontier life. More