By MATT PIKE
During the Museum Association of St. Joseph's annual Free Musuem Day, the Pony Express Museum will give free admission to the musuem on September 19th.
During Free Museum Day, the museum will also open up its Pony School. The Pony School is a one-room schoolhouse constructed to 1860s standards. Schoolmarms will teach short lessons much like those presented to students of days gone by. The Pony School schedule will feature several lessons with the schedule shown below.
- Schoolmarm: 10:00 am – 10:30 am: 10:30 am – 11:00 am
- Handwriting: 11:00 am– 11:30 am
- Games: 11:30 am – 12:00 pm
- Schoolmarm: 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm: 1:30 pm – 2:00 pm
- Handwriting: 2:00 pm– 2:30 pm
- Games: 2:30 pm – 3:00 pm
“Join us at Pony School for a unique learning experience as taught by experienced schoolmarms," Executive Director of the Pony Express Museum Cindy Daffron says in a news release. "We’ll also teach Spencerian script, an elegant, lightweight style of cursive handwriting developed in the US by Platt Rogers Spencer in the early 1830s. It’s this style schoolmarms taught in the 1860s. This session will be followed by games popular at the time, because what would a school day be without games?!”
The Pony Express Museum is open all year, seven days a week except major holidays. The Museum is located in the building where the Pony Express founders housed their stables. Stand in the exact spot where the first rider left St. Joseph heading west carrying mail and other important documents on April 3rd, 1860.
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