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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Maud Hart Lovelace’
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 »
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 [...]
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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