The Real Start of Teaching the Fourth of July – Part 2 Note: Part 1 you will find here. This piece is actually about the last quilt my class made. Bloggers have asked me to ‘finish the story’. Here is Part 2, with two more to follow. Over the summer I will go back to the […]
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Coronavirus news: England awaits Freedom Day on July 19 One year ago, July 4 was England’s Independence Day from coronavirus. Shops and restaurants re-opened, albeit with requirements for masks. One year on, and it’s Groundhog Day. After a prolonged period of restrictions from Christmas 2020, England awaits Freedom Day, which Prime Minister Boris Johnson and […]
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Marquis De Lafayette Since we are in the process of celebrating our independence I thought that a young Frenchman should be recognized for his assistance in our fight…. One of the ‘heroes’ of the American Revolution…..a French noble that came to fight on the side of the Colonials….. At a dinner on August 8, 1775, […]
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Happy Independence Day Today this country celebrates the Declaration Of Independence a document that set this country on a path to gain their independence from the yoke of Great Britain…… And you guys know me….I cannot let this go by without a short history lesson of the day….. 1712–12 slaves are executed in New York […]
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Fourth of July 2012 I wrote this poem almost ten years ago. Thinking about the 4th of July and what independence day really means, I realized that it is all in the perspective from which it is viewed. It may be uncomfortable to look back at history the way it really was and know that […]
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J. F. Frazier’s Studio, Audubon, Iowa 1907 Audubon I knew this was Leora Goff but had no idea how old she was. Then I noticed this very faint mark in the lower right. I could make out that it was from Audubon! According to Leora’s memoirs, they moved “in March of 1906 to farm eight […]
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