Lake Placid-North Elba Historical Society Trustee Margie Gallagher on June 5 watches Cooper look at images through a stereoscope in Allison Smith's Lake Placid Elementary School fourth-grade class. (News photo — Andy Flynn)
Charlie, Cooper and Owen -- Lake Placid Elementary School students in Allison Smith's fourth-grade class -- look at artifacts from Lake Placid and Wilmington on June 5. (News photo — Andy Flynn)
Lake Placid-North Elba Historical Society Trustee Margie Gallagher on June 5 shows Lake Placid Elementary School students in Allison Smith's fourth-grade class a German helmet from World War II. (News photo — Andy Flynn)
Wilmington Historical Society President Karen Peters on June 5 shows Lake Placid Elementary School students in Allison Smith's fourth-grade class a pair of ice tongs. (News photo — Andy Flynn)
Lake Placid Elementary School fourth-grade teacher Allison Smith on June 5 shows students a smock Whiteface Mountain Ski Center workers would use to keep warm while Wilmington Historical Society President Karen Peters showed a photo of it being used. (News photo — Andy Flynn)
Fourth-grade student Emma watches Lake Placid-North Elba Historical Society Trustee Margie Gallagher on June 5 show off a candlestick telephone in Allison Smith's Lake Placid Elementary School class. (News photo — Andy Flynn)
Fourth-grade students Ava, Connor and Axton do research on June 6 for the Lake Placid Elementary School's History Fair. (Provided photo — Karen Peters)
Fourth-grade students Lauren and Lillie on June 6 research a duck decoy for the Lake Placid Elementary School's History Fair. (Provided photo — Karen Peters)
Fourth-grade student Senita watches Lake Placid-North Elba Historical Society Trustee Margie Gallagher on June 9 show students in Allison Smith's Lake Placid Elementary School class how to give a History Fair presentation. (News photo — Andy Flynn)
Lake Placid Elementary School fourth-grade teacher Allison Smith shows off the artifact presentation she made about 1950s ski boots. (News photo — Andy Flynn)
LAKE PLACID — Lake Placid Elementary School fourth-grade students in Allison Smith’s class recently spent a week preparing for their annual History Fair.
From Friday, June 2 to Friday, June 9, each student chose an artifact, researched it and created a presentation for the end of the week explaining the history connected to the object.
Artifacts were supplied by the Lake Placid-North Elba Historical Society and Wilmington Historical Society. Lake Placid’s director, Sophie Morelli, and one of its trustees, Margie Gallagher, and Wilmington’s president, Karen Peters, spent the week working with the students. All are former teachers.
About 45 students took part in the History Fair this year. They spent June 9 on their presentations and enjoyed a pizza party for lunch.
