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Marseilles Elementary second-graders visit Seattle Sutton Marseilles Museum

Students have chance to decorate pumpkins, learn about corn sheller

By Shaw Local News Network
John Smith provides a corn sheller demonstration to Marseilles Elementary School second-graders on Oct. 6 and teachers students about the different types of corn grown in Illinois.

John Smith provides a corn sheller demonstration to Marseilles Elementary School second-graders on Oct. 6 and teachers students about the different types of corn grown in Illinois. (Photo provided by Ruth Sutton-Egofske)

Marseilles Elementary School second-graders visited the Seattle Sutton Marseilles Museum on Oct. 6 for a day of pumpkin decorating and learning about a corn sheller.

Marseilles Elementary School second-graders visited the Seattle Sutton Marseilles Museum on Oct. 6. Students had the opportunity to decorate pumpkins during their field trip.

Marseilles Elementary School second-graders visited the Seattle Sutton Marseilles Museum on Oct. 6. Students had the opportunity to decorate pumpkins during their field trip. (Photo provided by Ruth Sutton-Egofske)

Volunteers led by museum volunteer manager Rosemary Martin assisted the Seattle Sutton Marseilles Museum during a Marseilles Elementary School field trip on Oct. 6.

Volunteers led by museum volunteer manager Rosemary Martin assisted the Seattle Sutton Marseilles Museum during a Marseilles Elementary School field trip on Oct. 6. (Photo provided by Ruth Sutton-Egofske)

Marseilles Elementary School teacher Ms. Brooke joins her student, Jovell, during the second-graders' pumpkin decorating activity at the Seattle Sutton Marseilles Museum on Oct. 6.

Marseilles Elementary School teacher Ms. Brooke joins her student, Jovell, during the second-graders' pumpkin decorating activity at the Seattle Sutton Marseilles Museum on Oct. 6. (Photo provided by Ruth Sutton-Egofske)