This year marked the 40th anniversary of my museum’s biggest event of the year, Candlelight. As part of the anniversary, we created a small exhibit and I researched the history of the event. One thing that surprised me was how quickly the key elements of the event came together: buildings decorated by community groups, performances [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Betsy-Tacy’
Timeless
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anne of Green Gables, Betsy-Tacy, Christmas, Little House, Little Women, Roller Skates on December 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Evangelism
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Betsy-Tacy, Maud Hart Lovelace on November 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My poor, neglected blog. I knew it had been a long time, but I hadn’t realized it had been over two months. Sheesh! And it’s not like I’ve quite dropped off the face of the earth or stopped reading–just the usual very busy fall. So what brings me back, finally, to this little corner of [...]
Christmas Classics
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Betsy-Tacy, Christmas, Great Brain, lesson plan, Little House, Little Women, Roller Skates on November 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Though it’s not quite the holiday season yet, I’ve spent much of this morning reading Christmas scenes from various children’s books. For Candlelight (the museum’s biggest event of the year), I decided to create a pre-visit lesson plan for teachers visiting in December. And what better way to talk about how holidays have changed in [...]
School days
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anne of Green Gables, Betsy-Tacy, Little House on August 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Today is the first day of school for most of my Texas neighbors. We also had a record high temperature of 107, but that’s beside the point. Depressing, but not the point. School is a really big part of so much of kidlit history. Because, you know, these are books about kids and they spend most [...]
Power of Place
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Betsy-Tacy, historic preservation, historic sites on March 30, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been thinking a lot about the unique magic of literary places. Not that this is something I never think of (see previous posts here and here), but it’s really come to the forefront based on a few very different things. First, a unique opportunity has arisen for the Betsy-Tacy Society. [...]
Beyond the frontier
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged All-of-a-Kind Family, Betsy-Tacy, Great Brain, John D. Fitzgerald, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House, Maud Hart Lovelace, Sydney Taylor on March 9, 2010 | 7 Comments »
At my museum, we get a lot of school tours. Sometimes, we even get survey responses or comments or samples of the lesson plans teachers use to prep for the field trip. Generally speaking, this makes me very, very happy. And generally speaking, I’m amazed to see how creative teachers are in connecting their textbooks [...]
Pilgrimages
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anne of Green Gables, Betsy-Tacy, historic sites, L. M. Montgomery, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, Maud Hart Lovelace on October 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This afternoon, while attempting to be domestic, I caught up with one of my favorite NPR programs, This American Life. A few weeks ago, they aired a new episode called “The Book That Changed Your Life.” How could I not listen? The entire show was fantastic, but I was particularly intrigued by Act 4: Little [...]
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 [...]
The Manifesto, so to speak
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Little Princess, All-of-a-Knd Family, Anne of Green Gables, Betsy-Tacy, children's literature, L. M. Montgomery, Little House, Little Women, Maud Hart Lovelace on August 30, 2009 | 14 Comments »
When I was a kid, I spent most of my time in the nineteenth century. It all started with the Little House books. My grandmother read them to me, and they became my very first chapter books that I could read all by myself. From there, it was just a hop, skip and jump to Little [...]
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