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The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum will launch its eighth annual Young Writers’ Competition onFebruary 1, 2021.The competitiontitled,
A Scientist Visits the Mansion, will end on June 4, 2021 with an awards ceremony on Sunday, Nov. 21, 2021. The competition is open to all middle school students sixth through eighth grade in the Tristate area.
Participants will be tasked to write a story of a fictional event taking place at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion between 1868 and 1938. The cast of characters must include a doctor or scientist who became famous or infamous during the mid-to-late 19th century and members of the Lockwood or Mathews families. Young writers will learn about the families’ history, read biographies of the doctors and scientists, and explore the rooms in the Mansion where the event described could have taken place, using the Museum’s website as a reference. Students will create a short story that will include at least one do
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Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum holds annual youth writing contest with focus on science
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The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum will be accepting submissions to their annual Young Writers Competition School Feb. 1 through June 4.Photo courtesy of Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum / Contributed photo
Creative youngsters in the tristate area are invited to put pen to paper (or finger to key) and compete in the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum’s (LMMM) eighth annual Young Writers Competition.
For this year’s competition the LMMM is asking middle school students in grades six through eight to write a story based on the theme “A Scientist Visits the Mansion,” that explores a fictional event that takes place at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion between 1868 and 1938.