Making bricks in the old-fashioned way

STEPHANIE BERTHOLDO/Acorn Newspapers MUD STOMP- Brookside Elementary School students in Paula Stromquist's fourth-grade class visit the Olivas Adobe in Ventura recently to learn about early Californian history. As part of the lesson, students went barefoot in the mud to make bricks similar to the ones used to build the 19th-century Olivas Adobe rancho.