There is no greater way to learn than by doing. In addition to the standard tour of the Boone Home, Boone Campus staff will work with teachers and youth leaders to select program activities that provide experiential learning opportunities. These programs involve the participants in such hands-on activities as splitting fence rails with gluts and a maul, riving cedar shingles with a froe, fire starting with flint and steel or cooking a meal in a Dutch Oven. Participants may also observe a black-powder firearms demonstration or the "village blacksmith" forging an "S" hook.