As an undergraduate history major, former history teacher and current principal of Buckfield Junior-Senior High School, I was very pleased to read about Phil McAlister’s interest in Buckfield history expressed in his Jan. 1 guest column headlined “Finding signs of history before they disappear.”
I would like to assure McAlister that Buckfield history is, indeed, taught at BJSHS. Gretchen Kimball, one of our seventh-grade teachers, and her students have taken the responsibility of maintaining the gravesites of 18 U.S. veterans buried at eight remote sites around town; eighth-grade science teacher Tom Light takes his students on a hike up Streaked Mountain each year to look for signs of changes in the earth; and Annette Caldwell, our other seventh-grade teacher, engages her students with local mapping and oral history projects, to cite just a few examples.
McAlister obviously has great knowledge of Buckfield history, and I would welcome meeting him to discuss ways he could share it with our students.
Donald J. Reiter, principal, Buckfield Junior-Senior High School, Buckfield
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