Monthly Archives: July 2022
HISTORY CHALLENGE: ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS
Have your kids look up the statues and other iconic roadside attractions on display in towns and cities across your country and see who can find the oldest one. Kenora, Ontario has had Husky the Muskie since 1967. https://cottagelife.com/general/kenoras-husky-the-muskie-statue-to-be-restored/
HISTORY IN THE MAKING: POPE FRANCIS’S PENITENTIAL PILGRIMAGE
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-pope-alberta-apology-1.6530947 And residential schools, and all other atrocities committed against native peoples in Europe’s ‘discovered’ lands, were set in motion by this:
HISTORY SHARE: SUMMER CAMPS
The photo above shows my father delivering my nephew and one of his friends to a summer camp back in 1986. https://www.history.com/news/why-fear-of-big-cities-led-to-the-creation-of-summer-camps https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190496548.001.0001/oso-9780190496548-chapter-4
TRIVIA TRAIL: THE GARBAGE OFFENSIVE
Question: What was the name of the activist youth group that dumped garbage in the middle of New York streets in 1969 to call attention to the lack of a good garbage collection system in their East Harlem neighbourhoods? Answer: The Young Lords https://tinyurl.com/k2kwaazf
BOOK PROMO: FREE SHIELD OF BEOM PDF EXCERPT
If you’re interested in downloading a free PDF excerpt of the second book in my Side Trip duology, go to: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BooksWeLovebookclub/permalink/1678206512537059 You’ll find lots of other great books at BWL too. https://www.bookswelove.com/
Time Travelling With Kids 