MORGANTOWN — Suncrest Elementary students got a living history lesson Monday from a man with ghosts in his head.
Todd “Ghost in the Head” Johnson, a historical interpreter from Pittsburgh and member of the Huron Native American Tribe, came to the school on Collins Ferry Road to offer lessons on indigenous life, including the technology that is still used today.
His “Stone to Steel” presentation took students from the first uses of flint for starting fires to specialized implements forged by the Hurons themselves.
The lesson plan was forged by the school’s fourth-grade teachers, who wanted to show how such work takes in everything from math to science and even reading.
Such technology, teacher Vada Boback said, is timeless.
“The materials we use now are different,” she said, “but the basic principles are the same.”
Johnson, meanwhile, earned his “Ghost in the Head” designation on principle.
Huron elders bestowed the name in tribute to the man’s desire to keep his heritage alive into the 21st century.
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