{"id":31439,"date":"2012-10-25T21:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T01:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=31439"},"modified":"2012-10-25T21:00:50","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T01:00:50","slug":"cover-112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/cover-112\/","title":{"rendered":"Students visit the Paine-Gillam-Scott Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/12oct\/pgs4.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><br \/>\n<em>5th grade students from Gateway North Elementary stopped by the Museum during their field trip to explore downtown St. Johns. Of course everyone wanted to be photographed in jail in the 1956 Centennial Bastille.<\/em><!--more--><br \/>\nStudent from Mrs. Rowland&#8217;s and Mrs. Newman&#8217;s class visited the Paine-Gillam-Scott Museum Complex on October 5th. The students were on a field trip to explore downtown St. Johns. At the Museum, students were split into small groups and each group took turns touring the Paine-Gillam-Scott House, General Store, Carriage House and the grounds of the complex.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/12oct\/pgs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><br \/>\nDiane Carlson, Director of the Paine-Gillam-Scott Museum gave a brief history of the early settlers that came from New York to build homes and start businesses in the area.<br \/>\nHighlights of the house tour included a Compau family picture, an 1819 Sampler, pictures made from human hair, iridescent glass dishes with uranium, household tools and the Election Exhibit, as well as the Merchants and Missionaries Exhibits. The Docent for the General Store explained how a person in the 1800&#8217;s and early 1900&#8217;s purchased staples. A special tour of the dentist office in the back of the General Store was given by Dr. Burkhart, DDS, who focused on how dentistry was performed many years ago.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/12oct\/pgs1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><br \/>\nThe Carriage House features modes of transportation, including a horse drawn carriage, a cutter for travel over ice and snow, and many items manufactured in Clinton County, including tools and heavy equipment.<br \/>\nOne of the most popular features at the Paine-Gillam-Scott Museum is a Bastille located on the grounds of the complex. The students have fun being locked in the Bastille and of course; they all request a picture of themselves &#8220;in Jail&#8221;.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/12oct\/pgs5.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><br \/>\nThe Museum is open Wednesday 2-7 pm and Sunday 1-4 pm. To schedule a group tour or for further information, please contact the Museum.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/12oct\/pgs3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5th grade students from Gateway North Elementary stopped by the Museum during their field trip to explore downtown St. Johns. Of course everyone wanted to be photographed in jail in the 1956 Centennial Bastille.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}