By WENDI WINTERS, For The Capital
By WENDI WINTERS, For The Capital
Capital Gazette Communications
Published
10/19/09
The multipurpose room at Arnold Elementary School looked like the galley of a pirate ship, staffed by Lilliputians. Pint-sized scalawags swaggered by, muttering "Arrrgh!" They were adorned with bandanas printed with skulls and crossbones, paper eye patches and hand-scribbled temporary tattoos.
Wendi Winters — For The Capital
A cluster of Arnold Elementary second-graders disguised as pirates got a chance to hold real pirate treasures found by undersea explorer Scott Mitchen. From left, Trippe Bauman, 8, Mitchen, Matthew Gower, 7, and Rachael Manturuk, 7.
A much taller pirate herded the little rapscallions into orderly rows. He was Michael Kovaks, a second-grade teacher.
It turns out these 89 baby-faced buccaneers were the school's entire second grade. They were decked out in pirate regalia and on deck for an afternoon assembly presented by Milwaukee, Wis., native Scott...
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