Fun & Games
Try your luck at these Farm Language phrases. And enjoy our People and Places Word Search Puzzles.
Trivia Competition
Each year students from Lawrence County's school districts compete in either the Senior High or Jr High Division.
Museum Tours
Group tours are available for students, adults, families, organizations. Advance reservations are required.
The Lawrence County Historical Society has numerous youth educational programs. The Society’s programs include history lectures in local schools, special museum tours and learning seminars for youth and school groups, and award winning the Lawrence County Trivia competition. The trivia competition is now in its 25th year and boasts over two-hundred local competitors.
Fun & Games: Farm Language & Word Search
1) FARM LANGUAGE
You can take the boy out of the farm but you can’t take the farm out of the language.
From 1910-1920, one-third of all Americans lived on a farm. Today, the farm population is less than 2 percent of the population of the United States. However, we continue to use expressions with farm connotations.
How many of these do you use / know? Can you add any more to our list?
- Dumb as a post
- Workhorse
- Showhorse
- Pigheaded
- Stubborn as a mule
- Looks like a pigpen
- Take to the woodshed
- Make hay while the sun shines
- Till the cows come home
- Separate the wheat from the chaff
- Hold your horses
- Horsing around
- Butt your head against a stonewall
- Spring chicken
- Herded like sheep
- Horse of another color
- Were you born in a barn?
2) WORD SEARCH PUZZLES: people & places
PEOPLE WORD SEARCH puzzles of some FAMOUS PEOPLE in Lawrence County’s history.
See how long it takes you to find and circle their names.
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PLACES WORD SEARCH puzzles of some CITIES AND PLACES in Lawrence County.
See how long it takes you to find and circle the words.
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