One of my favorite homeschool memories was the year we studied different regions of America. Television and people moving from region to region have watered down the variations between them, but I am thankful that regional distinctions continue to exist. Sightseers still travel to New England to ... View Post
Snowing Down South
A few years ago I walked into a lingerie department and asked for the location of the slips. I was flabbergasted when the sales lady told me that this department store didn't sell them in the store anymore, but I could order one from the catalog. What? No slips? We never would have left home without ... View Post
History in Your Hometown
On a frigid January night in 2004, we spent our first night in our old farmhouse. We had lived in this area for ten years and had visited friends in our new county many times, but we still had lots to learn and new people to meet. A few months later I attended our annual Poke Sallet Festival and ... View Post
Say “Uncle”
Kids liked to wrestle when I was a little girl, just like they do today. When one kid got another kid in some kind of hold, he might make him say "Uncle" before he let him go. I'm sure that would be called bullying today. It certainly wasn't very nice back then. The word uncle brings up painful ... View Post
Can Someone Get the Phone?
We got our first telephone when we moved into town when I was four years old. It was a black table model with a rotary dial. We rented it from the telephone company, just like everybody else. If we called someone and the phone rang and rang and no one answered, you knew they were not at home. If ... View Post
Celebrate
Students of American history know that there were once thirteen British colonies along the Atlantic coast. Representatives of the colonies adopted the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain on July 4, 1776, and fought the American Revolution to gain that independence. The USA celebrates ... View Post