Gaston Museum hosts its last field trip [Video]

JOINERVILLE, Texas (KETK) – On Thursday morning, the Gaston Museum hosted its last field trip with Full Armor Christian Academy out of Henderson.

Tyler ISD Career & Technology students race in cardboard boats

“It’s very special but it’s also sad that there’s not going to be another one,” said Baxter Whitworth, a 7th-grade student.

The middle schoolers were a part of the last class to visit before the museum closes for good on April 30th.

“Very glad and honored that full armor was my last class,” Stephanie Osteen, Gaston Museum director and chairman of the board, said.

Students experienced the history surrounding one of the largest oil booms in East Texas and a special community that formed because of it.

“Coming here to learn about the oil explosion, to know what life was like during the time that stuff was made,” Crawford Bird, 6th grade student, said.

The students were able to dig for arrowheads and learn …