Civil War School Day: Themed Field Trip
Discover the Civil War! Participants learn how the soldiers and citizens of the North and South lived during the conflict. Watch cavalry, artillery, and medical demonstrations, engage in stories of the homefront here in Manitowoc County, and participate in hands-on activities. You may even learn how to march! Join us where the textbook page springs to life.
Your Voice, Your Vote School Day: Themed Field Trip
The experience includes 19th century issues to debate and then vote.
Home for the Holidays: Themed Field Trip
Guided through the wintery Historic Village, interpreters will share 19th-century seasonal traditions and encourage students to make connections with their own experiences. This experience has six 20-minute stops, each in a historic building bedecked in holiday decorations. This tour creatively delivers a host of curriculum topics in a memorable way using song, dance, games, crafts, storytelling, and more!
Food, Forage, and Flame: Homeschool Family Field Trip
How was food grown, gathered, cooked, and preserved at the turn of the 20th century? Visit the kitchens, gardens, and farms throughout the Historic Village to find out. Plus, gather round to smell the cooking in action, learn how to build an outdoor fire, and so much more!
Fur Trade: Homeschool Family Field Trip
Explore the changes the American Fur Trade brought to the shores of Lake Michigan and it’s people here in the Manitowoc area. Students will be able to explore trade goods, furs, fire starting, and much more.
Characters in Winter: Homeschool Family Field Trip
Celebrate Laura Ingalls birthday with this wintery program. Visit some favorite childhood characters and explore their lives in winter. Do chores with Almanzo, grind wheat into flour like it is The Long Winter, put on a theatrical like the March girls, and more!
Tis the Season: Homeschool Family Field Trip
Explore different ethnic holiday traditions with symbols, hands-on traditions, and customs.
Exploring Wisconsin History and STEAM (Family Field Trip)
Connect students to history and science through this fun, interactive program. As they rotate through stations, students find out about Wisconsin history related to science, technology, engineering, art and math.
Winter Work - Lumberjacks, Flapjacks, and Syrup (Family Field Trip)
Celebrate the charm of maple syrup season, as Pinecrest Village buzzes with the energy of early spring. Discover the old-fashioned skills needed to take this sweet treat all the way from tree to table.
Fire and Ice (Family Field Trip)
We are firing up the forge in the blacksmith shop and the woodstove in the Sorenson House. We’re bringing out the ice cream maker and sharing the day with friends at the fire department for a bucket brigade (bucket brigade. Learn the roles fire and ice play in the lives of residents in Pinecrest Village.
In the Kitchen (Homeschool program)
From helping at the General Store to being a guest in a family’s bustling kitchen, you will learn how to shop, use and measure ingredients, and create recipes.
Holiday Traditions (Homeschool program)
Help the residents and store keepers of Pinecrest Village prepare for the Christmas season! There’s shopping to be done, gifts to wrap, and trees to decorate. Experience some of the holiday traditions that immigrants to Wisconsin brought with them.
Your Voice, Your Vote (Homeschool program)
There is much to decide in the future of the Village of Pinecrest! The experience includes 1900s era issues to debate and then vote at the Two Creeks Town Hall and Meeme Poll House.
Weary Traveler’s Journey (Homeschool)
The year is 1890. You have been traveling through Northeast Wisconsin, looking for a new place to settle and seek your new life. You have your family and two horses with you to pull your wagon.
This morning, your wagon broke down in the rural Manitowoc County village of Pinecrest. Is it time to settle, or should you keep moving?