Articles labeled: kenton stufflebeam

A little know-it-all from Allegan, Michigan went to the Smithsonian Museum for vacation and noticed a mistake in an exhibit that had been there for 27 years. Bet those curators are a bit embarrassed at the moment.

On a winter break trip with his family to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, the 11-year-old southwestern Michigan boy noticed that a notation, in bold lettering, mistakenly identified the Precambrian as an era.

Since it opened in 1981, millions of people have paraded past the museum’s Tower of Time, a display involving prehistoric time. Kenton was the first to point out the error.

Kenton Stufflebeam, who lives in Allegan but attends Alamo Elementary School near Kalamazoo, said his fifth-grade teacher, John Chapman, had nearly made the same mistake about the Precambrian in a classroom earth-science lesson before catching himself.

Uh, anyone else remember learning this kind of stuff in 5th grade? We had barely learned the 50 state capitals by then.