Camp was never like this. Imagine being thrilled about washing clothes by hand, concocting your own medicine and endlessly cranking a handle to get butter. Not only did dozens of students from Valley Oaks Charter and Bakersfield High School perform those tasks — they asked to do it. It was all in the name of education at the annual Living History Camp/Frontier Life in Kern County Day — held at the Kern County Museum from March 30 — April 2. During the first three days of the week, students from Valley Oaks were immersed in learning how to live frontier style with help from their teachers, museum staff and docents. They had to perform the unglamorous tasks, such as washing clothes by hand, and also learn why pioneers did it that way — same story for concocting home remedies, branding, coring apples, churning butter, wool carding, embroidering, oil papering windows, rope making, cooking, candle making and more. But on April 2, the fourth day, students became teachers, when approximately 1,000 county students came to the museum for Living History Day: Frontier Life in Kern County.