A picture truly is worth a thousand words – here are the winners of the Erie Canal photo contest : ENJOY! I so enjoyed our week on the Erie, I look forward to one day going back to do it again. I’d love to drive along the Erie from one end to the other […]
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More about the Erie Canal
October 2nd, 2018 · No Comments · Museums, Musings, photo of the week, travel, Website of the Week
Tags: Erie Canal·learning·museum·time·travel
Country School Houses
June 14th, 2017 · 1 Comment · Children, Country Schools, Education, Museums, Shaker, Site Seeing, Teaching & Learning, Volunteer
What a day! On this last day of the Country School Association of America conference, we spent from 8 to 6:30 on a bus driving about the local area of New Hampshire visiting no less than nine – yes – NINE – one room country schools! Just amazing. This is my first time at this […]
Tags: Children·country school·Hancock Shaker Village·learning·museum·one-room schoolhouse·photo·reading·school·students·teaching
Watercolors, New Hampshire, Delaware, and the Beechers
June 13th, 2017 · No Comments · Children, Country Schools, eating, Education, Food, Important People, Museums, Play, Teaching & Learning
What do these items have in common? Another great day at the Country School Association of America‘s annual conference! My pictures aren’t so great today as I choose to sit a little further to the side today. I discovered a place in the room with a bit better light overhead and a little less air […]
Tags: art·Beecher·Children·Delaware·DuPont·food·learning·museum·reading·school·teaching·watercolors
Country Schools — Day One
June 12th, 2017 · No Comments · Books, Children, Country Schools, Education, Important People, Museums, Shaker, Teaching & Learning
Well, maybe day two depending upon how you count! But, the first whole day of presentations – and wow were they amazing! Twelve presentations were offered throughout the day – one being mine. You choose one of two in each time slot. First was the keynote speaker, Steve Taylor, a farmer, journalist and longtime public […]
Tags: 19th century·Children·country school·grammar school·Horace Mann·learning·museum·oxen·reading·recitation·school·Shaker·slates·tablets·teaching
Van Gogh sleeps…
March 9th, 2016 · No Comments · Art, Museums, Site Seeing, travel
Cross posted from Welovemuseums.com Or at least his bedroom is in Chicago… On the last Thursday of February, hubby and I stopped by the Art Institute of Chicago. I say stopped by because we were on a break between trains on our way from San Francisco to Springfield, MA via Amtrak. What a great […]
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