Doak House Museum hosts history summer day camp

Making kaleidoscopes, left, and writing in copybooks with quill pens, at right, were two of the many activities for the participants in the "Blast to the Past," a history summer day camp hosted this week (July 22-25) by the Doak House Museum. Fifteen participants from Greene County, Washington County, Newport, Georgia and Virginia attended the day camp, working on fun and challenging projects related to the 19th century. Activities included making the kaleidoscope, stenciling, designing a flag, decorating T-shirts, painting clay pots, and keeping the 19th century copybooks. The summer camp is just one of the many educational programs of the Doak House Museum, located on a site which has been used continuously for 185 in some type of educational activity. The Doak House Museum, which is operated by the Department of Museum Program and Studies at Tusculum, was the home of the Reverend Samuel Witherspoon Doak, co-founder of the college. The museum hosted more than 7,000 school children from Northeast Tennessee last year for a variety of educational programs related to the early 19th century. For more information about the educational programs at the Doak House, call 636-8554 or 1-800-729-0256 ext. 5251.