Smarts Mill Students Make Film History

More than 130 seventh grade students from spent Thursday making films about the Civil War at .

The school worked with the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership to participate in its “Of the Student, By the student, For the Student” service learning project.

Students research primary source material, and then write, act and film their own movies about Civil War life, according to John Jones, a spokesman for the partnership.

Telling these stories “through their eyes,” the work the students produce will be used as supplemental educational material for other students, he said.

Abby Pfisterer, director of public programming at Morven Park, said she was excited that the partnership and the school had chosen to come there to make their movies.

“I’m excited they saw so many uses for the buildings here,” she said.

Layne Hubble, 13, was one of the directors on Thursday. She said she not only learned a lot about the history of the battle of , which occurred near by, by, but also the process of film making.

“I love it,” she said.

For more information on the program, visit the partnership’s  website.