BROOKINGS – “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”
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BROOKINGS – “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”
Those words of Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. (1887-1940), a Jamaican-born political leader, took root Monday evening when Mickelson Middle School sixth-graders, as they do every year about this time, brought some knowledge of past history to life, with the telling of stories by those who helped shape it.
The annual POP (People of the Past) Wax Museum was held in Brookings High School this year because of extensive construction work at the middle school.
About 250 students portrayed historical personages ranging from Hannibal Barka, a Carthaginian general who tried, but failed, to conquer Rome more than 200 years before the birth of Jesus, who was also portrayed, to modern day entertainers, including Whitney Houston, Frank Sinatra and David Bowie. A donation of 25 cents brought the “wax figure” to life, with the money collected this year being donated to the Brookings Regional Humane Society.
The annual event, a sort of rite of passage for Mickelson sixth-graders, was staged by teachers Katie Burggraff, Michelle Jewett, Cheryl Meyer and Mackenzi Timmons.
