Photos by Mary Alice Murphy
On Friday School Days at Fort Bayard Days 215 students from area elementary schools, along with 25 teachers and adults took part in various informational booths and activities explaining the history of Fort Bayard.
Fort Bayard Days will continue Saturday with re-enactors and informational booths, two vintage base ball games at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., a military band performing in the gazebo at 1 p.m. and a military ball on Saturday evening. Sunday morning will feature an interdenominational service with two chaplains portrayed.
2014 Fort Bayard Days - Friday
2014 Fort Bayard Days on Friday
Ben Duran's fifth grade class from G.W. Stout Elementary buys things at the headquarters shopping spot.
2014 Fort Bayard Days-Friday
Dr. Bob Mallin of the Surgery explains the old medical tools to students from the Calvary Christian Academy, four, fifth and sixth grades.
2014 Fort Bayard Days on Friday
Derrell Hiett represents a Rough Rider with the 1st Volunteer Cavalry Regiment under Col. Teddy Roosevelt
2014 Fort Bayard Days on Friday
Home schooled students Whitney,9, and Wyatt, 7, Gibson try their hand at driling into a tree to age it by a core of tree rings, which when counted show the age of the tree.
2014 Fort Bayard Days on Friday
At Freighting on the Overland Trail, Doug Hocking of Sierra Vista, Ariz. talks to students of San Lorenzo Elementary, fourth, fifth and sixth graders.
2014 Fort Bayard Days on Friday
Jacque Cusack explains spinning to students from the fifth grade at G.W. Stout Elementary.
2014 Fort Bayard Days on Friday
Prince McKenzie of el Paso and Don Beem talk about the railroad to Central Elementary fourth graders.
2014 Fort Bayard Days on Friday
Students from Stout Elementary Mrs. Gonzales' fifth grade class learn how to make rope from Charmeine Wait.
2014 Fort Bayard Days on Friday
The rest of the students from Mrs. Gonzales' Stout Elementary School fifth grade class play with Jacob's ladders and the cup and ball. Donna Schaffer leads the booth.
2014 Fort Bayard Days on Friday
New Mexico Ranching is presented by Jan and Jack Wenzel to Mrs. Hughes' fourth grade calls from Jos+? Barrios Elementary.
2014 Fort Bayard Days on Friday
Ansel Walters talks about Buffalo Soldiers to a family
2014 Fort Bayard Days on Friday
Students stream across the parade ground to their next booth.
2014 Fort Bayard Days on Friday
The Gibson family hears about the cannon.
2014 Fort Bayard Days on Friday
Ron Henderson and Bill Kupke talk military history with an unidentified young man.
2014 Fort Bayard Days on Friday
Marilyn Weaver from Las Cruces talks about Suds and a Family to Central Elementary fourth-graders.
2014 Fort Bayard Days Friday
Ruben Fillaba, Tyler Morrison and Consuelo Arias show how to put down adobe blocks to build an adobe home.
2014 Fort Bayard Days on Friday
Fourth-graders from Hurley Elementary take part in a relay sack race.
2014 Fort Bayard Days on Friday
Andrew Holderfield tries his hand at walking on cans.
2014 Fort Bayard Days on Friday
Jaylynn Marquez takes steps with her feet on the cans.
2014 Fort Bayard Days on Friday
Miss Salas' Bayard Elementary class learns about the 4th Cavalry U.S. Army Band from Jodie Starks of Tucson. She is in the band that will play on Saturday at 1 p.m.
2014 Fort Bayard Days-Friday
Kay Henderson and Jeannette Giese show Mrs. Lopez's Bayard Elementary fourth-grade class how to polka.
2014 Fort Bayard Days-Friday
Denis Murati of the Gila Trappers represents a trapper. It was the trappers who opened the West in 1830 to provide pelts for beaver hats for men back East.
