BRYAN EATON/Staff photo. Amesbury's Cashman Elementary School fourth-graders reenacted immigrants entering Ellis Island in the early 19th century. It was part of studies of what immigrants were about including the Pilgrims. Thomas Miller, 9, playing an immigrant from Ireland, sticks out his tongue for parent volunteer Michelle Parsons, who's really a nurse, as he goes through the health checkup.

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