For anyone who spends any time with children, there are certain questions and subjects that come up over and over again. Subjects like bathrooms and poop. At a museum like ours, this comes up fairly frequently. We have outhouses, including one two-seater (glamour!). We also have donkeys–you can always tell when they poop in front [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Everybody poops. . .
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Great Brain, Heaven to Betsy, John D. Fitzgerald, Maud Hart Lovelace on September 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Judging a book by its cover. . .
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anne of Green Gables, Betsy-Tacy, Little House on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This past weekend, I was very, very excited to find a boxed set of Anne, 1-3. Of course, this may be considered odd by some since I have more than a few copies of Anne. And it’s not like these are first editions. But, could you resist a boxed set that looks like this? There [...]
Piecing it together
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Carol Ryrie Brink, L. M. Montgomery, Maud Hart Lovelace, Ruth Sawyer, women's history on September 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Last spring, our exhibit was on domestic arts. Specifically, quilts, gardening, and woodworking. We were part of a larger collaboration, and museums throughout the city were doing various exhibits on quilts. Now I like quilts as much as the next person, but when you have two years of meetings, they can get a little, shall [...]
Opening Shots, Part 2
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Betsy and the Great World, Betsy Ray, Maud Hart Lovelace, WWI on September 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For a very different look at the first days of WWI, look no further than Betsy Ray. In Betsy and the Great World, she is almost, but not quite, in the middle of all the action, traveling through Europe in 1914. When books are set in certain years (1861, 1914, 1939), you just something historic [...]
Opening Shots. . .
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged L. M. Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside, WWI on September 6, 2009 | 16 Comments »
For years now, I’ve had a strong interest in World War I. Not the battles so much, but the social changes surrounding the Great War. And I can place the blame firmly on Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. Montgomery, since I certainly didn’t learn much about WWI in school. I must have read Rilla [...]
-
Top Posts
Archives
- January 2012 (3)
- December 2011 (1)
- November 2011 (1)
- September 2011 (2)
- August 2011 (1)
- July 2011 (3)
- June 2011 (3)
- May 2011 (2)
- April 2011 (3)
- March 2011 (2)
- February 2011 (3)
- January 2011 (3)
- December 2010 (5)
- November 2010 (2)
- October 2010 (2)
- September 2010 (2)
- August 2010 (2)
- July 2010 (4)
- June 2010 (2)
- May 2010 (4)
- April 2010 (3)
- March 2010 (2)
- February 2010 (7)
- January 2010 (5)
- December 2009 (5)
- November 2009 (2)
- October 2009 (6)
- September 2009 (5)
- August 2009 (2)
It just keeps coming up. . .
- my kidlit-history shelf:
