Fourth graders learn about Missouri history

Vernon County Historical Society Stafford Agee shows a class of fourth grade students around the old stone jail. Photos by Ralph Pokorny/Daily Mail.

Lem Sheppard, Pittsburg, Kan. entertained the students in the community center with a folk music concert.

Silvia Rainy, 8, from St. Mary's claps in time to Lem's music.

Ethan Gravely gets a taste of 1880's life when he washes a piece of cloth with lye soap on a washboard and then hangs his laundry on a clothesline to dry.