SCITUATE –– The 19-year-old Pilgrim and Native American village that was vandalized last month at Clayville Elementary School is rising again, thanks to more than 100 volunteers who came to the school Saturday to rebuild.

“It was amazing,” fourth-grade teacher Cindy Gould said. “Absolutely amazing, and so heartfelt.”

One man who said his ancestors came to America on the Mayflower and whose great-great grandparents once lived in Scituate brought his son and three grandchildren to help, Gould said.

“He still felt a historical connection to the community,” she said. “I made him promise to come back. I said, ‘My students have to sit at your feet and learn from you.’ ”

The villages –– the Pilgrim one that Clayville fifth-graders add to each year and the Native American one that the fourth-graders work on each year –– are not finished, but Gould and Clayville Principal Karen A. Cappelli were confident they’ll be ready in time for the school’s annual Harvest Festival on Nov. 5.

On Saturday, volunteers traveled from Narragansett, Coventry and Warwick after reading about the school’s efforts to rebuild the villages in The Providence Journal earlier this month, Cappelli said.

Much closer to home, the volunteers also included about half of the school’s fourth- and fifth-graders and their families, Gould said. Those students have used the villages every year as a hands-on teaching tool. The school also has two work days specifically set aside for those students and their families in the week before the Harvest Festival.

Clayville’s parent-teacher organization worked to get volunteers to bring baked goods for the Saturday reconstruction effort. Gould said she and Cappelli set out the banana breads, cranberry breads, cookies and other goodies in the school cafeteria, but the volunteers wouldn’t break from their work to go inside.

“We had to have someone bring the food out, because they wouldn’t stop working,” Gould said. “They were just so diligent.… We actually had to chase some families out of the village. ‘We’ll stay until midnight,’ they said.”

But school leaders wanted to preserve some work for the fourth- and fifth-grade students who will actually spend time living and working in the villages as part of their school lessons this year.

At the Pilgrim village, workers have rebuilt about eight or nine individual homes and a common house, Gould said. They still need to work on the interiors of those homes, the garden plots, tables, benches and fences, she said.

At the Native American village, there’s more work left to do because the wetu structures, or wigwams, that were destroyed required more painstaking work to deconstruct and will require considerable effort to rebuild, Gould said. The volunteers rebuilt one of five wetus and got started on two more, and they also rebuilt the frame of the corn platform, where children in the village would have stood above the gardens to chase the crows away, she said. They still must rebuild the sweat lodge, which the Northeast woodland tribes would have used as a place for spiritual cleansing, Gould said.

The juveniles charged with vandalizing the villages were due to appear before the town’s Juvenile Hearing Board Monday night.

kbramson@projo.com