Historic Christ Church & Museum (HCC&M) recently announced the 23rd annual Northern Neck History Fair. The competition is open to fourth graders at Lancaster Elementary and Northumberland Elementary schools and third graders at Chesapeake Academy.
Fourth grade homeschoolers from Lancaster and Northumberland counties also are invited to participate, reported executive director Robert Teagle.
The fair promotes research on life in colonial and revolutionary Virginia by these students, who study the period as part of their Virginia Studies curricula. Students enter by creating an original exhibit, display or design that tells the story of an event, person or cultural development in Virginia during the period 1607-1789.
A student may work on the exhibit alone or with a classmate, but no more than two….
