Educational Opportunities

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Closely related to our efforts in preservation and interpretation, the PEP takes seriously our role as community educator. Since our incorporation in 1991, we have worked to provide a variety of educational opportunities to the community and visitors.

The Ewing Institute

Our most popular service is the availability of guided town and battlefield tours. In addition to these traditional group tours, for the past several years, the PEP has partnered with the Centre College Governor’s Scholars Program to provide an interactive tour for students. The all-day event places participants in the shoes of a soldier from charging a hill amid enemy fire to enduring long, strenuous marches to burying fallen comrades.

Our strong relationship with area reenactors not only allows for the success of our annual GSP tour, but for a variety of living history events throughout the year. Our most extensive living history presentations are associated with the annual Reenactment/Commemoration Weekend. Reenactors set-up camps and sutler outposts at the park. In addition, the PEP hosts a living history event in town that focuses on the domestic side of historic Perryville including cobblers, rug hookers and Revolutionary soldiers.

Students participating in a dig

Finally, for several years the PEP has worked with Perryville Elementary School teachers on a variety of educational events and lesson plans dealing with Perryville’s story. We are currently in the process of expanding our educational outreach to all area schools through the creation of lesson plans dealing with various aspects of the battle, Sleettown and Perryville’s original Revolutionary era settlement. These efforts are currently geared to 4th grade students as a part of their Kentucky history studies. However, plans also include the future creation of educational units and projects for all age groups. The PEP envisions a day when we will be interacting with area students every week of the school year.

To access Perryville's unique and exciting lesson plans, click here.