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 […]
Entries Tagged as 'museum'
Watercolors, New Hampshire, Delaware, and the Beechers
June 13th, 2017 · No Comments · Children, Country Schools, eating, Education, Food, Important People, Museums, Play, Teaching & Learning
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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With a camel at the San Francisco at the Asian Art Museum…….
March 2nd, 2016 · No Comments · Art, Museums, photo of the week, retirement, Site Seeing, travel
I owe so many posts to my blog! I’ve traveled quite a bit since retirement – and boy do I need to talk about retirement – and haven’t written much up. But recently, we spent a good deal of February in San Francisco with our son, and this is one of the stops we always […]
Tags: art·asia·camel·flowers·learning·museum·photo·retirement·travel
Portugal & Northern Spain trip – #12
January 13th, 2015 · No Comments · Musings, photo of the week, Spain & Portugal 2014, travel, Walking
So, where were we? Well, it certainly has been too long since I continued telling you about our amazing trip, isn’t it? Now, what got in the way? The holidays, renovating two bathrooms (down to the studs and structural issues – that’s a multi-entry story in and of itself!), and an unplanned surgery! I began […]
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