Community History Workshop: Take 2

When we last checked in on the Community History Workshop, we were nearing the end of the fall semester.  Incredibly, spring is already upon us, and somehow I’ve neglected to fill my readers in on all the adventures we’ve been having. To those of you just tuning in to this blog station, the Community History […]

His Name was Mudd

As Abraham Lincoln lay at death’s door, wrapped in the darkness of Ford’s Theater, his assassin was departing Washington, DC with as much haste as he could muster, making like the wind atop his trusty steed.  Perhaps “trusty” would not be the best adjective to apply to John Wilkes Booth’s horse.  Call it stupidity, ineptness, […]

Old School

Mother Nature was never what you might call a scholar.  While the rest of her elementary school class was diligently fingerpainting, she was busy chasing butterflies.  In middle school, her algebra grades were nothing short of a mess; she would much rather watch spiders spin silk than attempt to unravel the mysteries of x and […]