PRUDENVILLE – Prohibition, organized crime, flappers, bootleggers, and jazz! Oysters Rockefeller, Hoover stew, cheese platters, mixed nuts, shrimp, and olive platters! Fingernail polish, access to automobiles and electricity, surge in immigration, and light pink women’s stockings all marked the era known as the Roaring Twenties!
Junior and Senior High School students at Skeels Christian School researched these topics and many others as they studied one of the most progressive decades in our history.
History Teacher Brian Clennan said, “All the students did a fabulous job in their group presentations, they put a lot of time into doing their research.”
Students selected areas like organized crime, the jazz area, and the Teapot Dome Scandal. Students did not know that prior to Watergate, the 1920’s Teapot Dome Scandal was regarded as the “greatest and most sensational scandal in the history of American politics”.
The hallway was filled with the look of the 1920’s as students dressed in era clothing. It was a great hands-on way to learn about the things their great-grandparents lived through. Oysters and shrimp were not served, but the students enjoyed other foods as Jazz music played in the background. Rumor even has it that Mr. Clennan was seen doing a few Charleston dancing moves!
