Ginger Tedder, April Dill and Mandy Kinney

Tedder along with her co-team members Dill and Kinney, created "Starkville Living Legacies," their winning living history and community program. It is designed as a research based, cross-curricular program that merges history, language arts and the arts. Culminating in a dramatic candlelight cemetery tour, the program will ideally instill an appreciation for and learning of history, language arts and the arts through purposeful, engaging learning. Students will choose, through research trips to the library, Oktibbeha County Heritage Museum, local cemeteries and suggestions from the community-at-large, a deceased figure from the community to research. Family members of the deceased will be invited into the school for face-to-face interviews to enhance the research for their project. The chosen subjects are then portrayed by the students in a theatrical production where they will also learn the skills for skit writing, prop gathering and event organization. The students will learn research, interview and communications skills, all while learning history and being entertained.