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Where can a kid be Tom Sawyer for a day, participate in a pie-eating contest, and win a bragging competition? At Lakehill Prep School, of course.
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Lakehill's ninth annual Mark Twain Day celebrated the end of a fifth-grade unit of study of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."
The book's timeless and universal theme — the glory days of childhood — prompted those in attendance to create their own adventures and to celebrate and embrace the wonder and freedom of childhood.
This year's April 24 event offered fourth- through sixth-grade students the chance to have fun the old-fashioned way, with sack races, bobbing for apples, and pitching horseshoes.
Students competed against themselves and each other in a variety of good-natured contests, including watermelon seed spitting, pie eating, and bragging. A Mark Twain festival could scarcely be imagined without a fence-painting event, and these students splashed on a variety of colors.
Some students dressed in costume as Becky, Tom, or Huck. The prizewinners this year for best costume were Kas Tebbets, Cameron Pike, and Dunny Bock, with honorable mention given to Marian Humphreys and Eden Bond.
