Ray and I enjoyed the lodge, outdoor activities, and pretty spring weather in southern Illinois at Pere Marquette State Park from Sunday night to yesterday morning. Part of our family was able to join us for most of the time. It was a delight. The Illinois River flows beyond the wide lawn behind ... View Post
Learning to Work Hard
Our family has enjoyed visiting the Victorian village of Historic Rugby, located in rural East Tennessee. Here are our children John, Bethany, and Mary Evelyn on one of our field trips there many moons ago. In the photo, our children are standing in front of Rugby's original church, built in ... View Post
Helping to Keep Homeschooling Legal
Today homeschooling is legal in all fifty states. This was not always true. About a year after we began homeschooling, we went on a trip from our home state of Illinois, where we enjoyed homeschooling freedom, to Michigan, where homeschooling was not yet legal. One morning in a grocery store, the ... View Post
Dr. Walker, An English Chap
Just a few miles from Levi Jackson Wilderness Road State Park, we saw a sign for Dr. Thomas Walker State Park. We were intrigued again and decided to make another stop. Back in the early 2000s, our family traveled to one homeschool group after another to perform our “Walk Through Tennessee ... View Post
Mills and Millstones
Yesterday Ray and I enjoyed a snowy-then-rainy drive from Louisville through eastern Kentucky and through Cumberland Gap National Historical Park into Tennessee and then North Carolina. I was reading aloud to Ray while he braved the wet roads. Part of our route was on Kentucky Highway 229, which ... View Post
History or Amnesia
Earlier this week, I took on a challenge. I'm on a mission to help a young man in our community change his mind about history. In a one-on-one conversation, he told me that he likes history, but . . . . I wish I could remember his exact words, but basically this young man (for whom I have a great ... View Post
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