Special to The North Jefferson News



Spring break involved a lot of walking and great adventure for some North Jefferson Middle School students.

Claire Chumley, MacKenzie Taylor, Annie Nguyen, Nathan Stover, Lynlee Taylor, Derick Smith, Zac Scrivner, Conner Laughlin and Lakein Mann, along with trip sponsor Cindy Gray and the students parents or grandparents, spent the week exploring Washington D.C.

The group toured Mt. Vernon, the home of George Washington; Ford Theater, where Abraham Lincoln was shot; Arlington National Cemetery and the National Cathedral.

They walked through memorials to Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Franklin Roosevelt, Korean War, World War II, Vietnam Memorial and Iwo Jima.

Some students and their chaperone stood in line to see the original Declaration of Independence.

Students also visited the Air and Space museum, the American History Museum, Daniel’s Story in the Holocaust Museum and the Natural History museum.

They also spent a day in Hershey, Penn., The group toured the Hershey factory along with the school Milton Hershey and his wife founded.

On the same day, they spent time learning about the Amish people and visited an Amish farm.