Highland High students and faculty are up in arms after hearing that a diorama they helped build was destroyed by Texas museum officials who said it was historically inaccurate.
The 10-foot by 5-foot diorama of the Battle at Palmetto Ranch, the last land battle of the Civil War, was shipped last August to the
Texas Military Forces Museum at Camp Mabry in Austin, along with four other dioramas built by Gilbert students.
Highland history teacher Glen Frakes is especially outraged because more than 7,000 hours were put into the project.
“A lot of people are being crushed by this,” Frakes said. “It was like a death. It was terrible.”.....
.....The museum, which belongs to the Texas National Guard, had a change of leadership and the new director, Jeff Hunt, told Frakes in November that the diorama was historically inaccurate and he had dismantled it.
Hunt did his master’s thesis on the Palmetto Ranch battle and also wrote the book The Last Battle of the Civil War Palmetto Ranch, which Frakes said he and his students used as a guide while constructing the diorama.....
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