WATCH NOW: Raindrops fails to dampen spirits at 2021 Historyfest in Trevor’s Miller Park on Sunday | Local News

Volunteer Richard Heinlein demonstrates how corn was ground into flour at home at the Western Kenosha County Historical Society’s annual history festival in Miller Park, Trevor.

Volunteer Ava Derler, 11, is straightening the desk in the 1880 schoolhouse at the annual History Festival hosted by the Western Kenosha County Historical Society at Miller Park, Trevor.

Bill Herreid and his father Ed Herreid Sr. demonstrate a 1936 cage wheel at the annual History Festival held by the Western Kenosha County Historical Society at Miller Park in Trevor.

Arne Jensen plays an old tune on his grandfather’s 1909 solo record player at the annual History Festival hosted by the Western Kenosha County Historical Society at Miller Park in Trevor.

Sue Heinlein, Treasurer of the Western Kenosha County Historical Society, speaks about the ice harvest modeled by Bill Milligan, the Society’s president, at the annual Trevor History Festival.

Christine A. Verstraete Kenosha News Correspondent

Christine A. Verstraete for the Kenosha News

TREVOR – Not even a few raindrops stopped the curious from diving last Sunday at the Western Kenosha County Historical Society’s annual history festival at Miller Park in Trevor.

For the early visitors, it was an opportunity to get a picture of the past – and maybe even reminisce a little.

“I remember those desks, the inkwells and the little slots for your pencil,” said Charles Stace from Trevor, looking at the vintage wooden desks in the former Twin Oaks one-room schoolhouse from 1880. “Our desks only had the slot underneath. They didn’t have a lid. “

The schoolhouse, which had moved from Brighton to Trevor in 1992, had many people wondering how things used to be and some were glad it wasn’t anymore.

Eleven-year-old volunteer Ava Derler was one who thought it would have been difficult to go to school with the different grades at the time. “It would be like a lot of people in one room,” she said.

This is what Jessica Ludvigsen from Silver Lake, who was visiting with her family for the first time, thought. “The schoolhouse is small,” she said. “It was nice to go in there to see it.”

Inside the main building, visitors were able to view detailed, handcrafted models of the former cattle yards and ice production.