As a teenager living in Europe, I had an opportunity to learn about World War II firsthand, from a tour of Anne Frank’s house in Amsterdam to standing among thousands of white crosses overlooking the beaches of Normandy. But the most human experience of all was visiting the Dachau Concentration Camp near Munich, Germany where […]
Politics and parties aside, visiting all of the Presidential Libraries is on my Photo Bucket List, so we had to make the Carter Presidential Library & Museum part of our trip to Atlanta. In a tradition started by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, beginning with President Herbert Hoover, there are currently 13 Presidential Libraries. Three down, ten to […]
As if the School Board knows how badly the Midwestern winters suck the life out of me, the kids always have a five day weekend in February about a month before their week-long Spring Break. Officially the break is for spring semester Parent/Teacher Conferences and President’s Day, but I used this year’s free days to take […]
Sadly, we arrived at the Nelson-Atkins Museum too late to take our Belgian exchange student on a tour of the works inside, but there is still a lot to see on the exterior grounds of the museum. As we strolled along the tree-lined walkways, we marveled at the shuttlecocks and giggled when we noticed that someone […]
We had to take our 16-year-old Belgian guest to the library and museum of the most famous US President from Missouri. (Nevermind that he is the only President from Missouri!) Having mostly studied World War II from a European perspective, I think she enjoyed learning about his role in World War II and how the experience differed […]
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