2012 Photo Gallery

Kristi Sierra stands next to a historical cannon at the Yorktown Battleground site..	Kristi Sierra uses and old corn grinder during her visit to Colonial Williamsburg.
Kristi Sierra meets musicians who performed colonial-period music during the Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute.	Stillwater teachers Jamie Bellah and Susan Coltharp spend time in the pillory during their visit to Colonial Williamsburg.
Susan Coltharp displays a Kings Court Flag.	Stillwater resident Kim Elaine Sloggett, a teacher at Central Oak Elementary School in Crooked Oak Schools, grinds corn on an antique grinder at a Colonial home in Williamsburg.
Susan Coble, a fifth-grade teacher and Friend Elementary School, searches for worms on tobacco plants during her visit to Colonial Williamsburg. Tobacco was a major industry in 18th-century Colonial America.	Robyn Carey, a fifth-grade teacher at Arrowhead Elementary, uses a colonial times grinding wheel to grind corn during a week-long trip to Colonial Williamsburg.
Erma Costner, a fifth-grade teacher at Beaver Elementary School, tries on traditional gentry man clothes while attending the Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute.	Shelley Noble, a fifth-grade and special education teacher at Beaver Elementary School, meets one of the many historical character interpreters during her visit to Colonial Williamsburg.
Michelle Bennett enjoys learning about the real people of Colonial Williamsburg through the eyes of historical interpreters. Pictured here is one such interpreter named Eve, who told the story of her real life character who was a slave of the prominent Randolph family of Williamsburg.	While touring the recreated colony of Jamestown, Va., Williamsburg Teaching Institute participant, Michelle Bennett, tries bearing the weight of an armor helmet like those worn by Jamestown soldiers in the 17th century.
Shelly Buhlinger, a fifth-grade teacher at Wayside Elementary, tries her hand at grinding corn during her visit to Colonial Williamsburg.	Bartlesville teachers (from left) Kristine Kramer, Shelly Buhlinger and Michelle Bennett met a variety of historical characters from the 18th century while attending the Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute this summer.
Looking at clothing and dressing the part is Glenda Bacon (left) in Gentry, leisure clothing, and Ranetta Eidson (right) in slavery clothing.	Jennifer Day, a teacher at Dickson Upper Elementary School, grinds corn in a historical corn grinder in a home in Colonial Williamsburg.
Ruth Ann Locke tries her hand at a corn grinder during her visit to Colonial Williamsburg.	Teri McDaniel, a fifth-grade social studies teacher at Madill Elementary School, visits Great Hopes Plantation while attending Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute. Here, she is helping with one of the daily activities that were typical of free and enslaved people on a middling farm holding in Williamsburg.
Debra Grilliot stands in the pillory outside the Courthouse in Colonial Williamsburg, VA.	Debra Grilliot worms tobacco at the Great Hopes Plantation, Williamsburg, VA.
Lincoln Elementary teacher Anita Lane inspects a tobacco plant for worms at Great Hopes Plantation in Colonial Williamsburg.	Lincoln Elementary teacher Anita Lane (left) and Erma Costner, a teacher from Beaver, try on period clothing of the "Gentry," which were the upper class individuals in early America.
Tanya Lasater, a teacher at Adams Elementary School, uses a two-person saw while visiting Great Hopes Plantation during her visit to Colonial Williamsburg. She practiced "hand hewning" logs to make boards for construction.	Tanya Lasater poses at a water well at one of the Colonial Williamsburg homes.