ORONO, Maine, April 10 -- University of Maine issued the following news release:
The first thing the students noticed at the University of Maine's J. Franklin Witter Teaching and Research Center was the smell - fresh hay and something earthier, followed by the low hum of cows shifting in their stalls. Then came hesitation and, finally, curiosity, as small hands reached out to touch an animal many had only seen in books.
Dawna Kulakowski teaches first through third grade in Troy, Maine. For her, moments like this are the point.
"I think it's important for kids in these grades to come to the farm and learn about agriculture here at the university, because they have a lot of this out in their own communities, and they might be interested in...