Monthly Archives: July 2025
HISTORIC RESTORATION: WESTON-SUPER-MARE’S GRAND PIER
The old Grand Pier was still up when I went to Weston-Super-mare as a child. Built in 1904, it burnt down in 2008 but a new one was open to the public by 2010. https://kids.kiddle.co/Weston-super-Mare
DON’T FORGET THE ‘STORY’: BYGONE ERA SUMMER READS FOR KIDS, TEENS, AND ADULTS
Ages 3-7 A Prairie Boy’s Summer by William Kurelek (Great Depression) Ages 7-10 Stage Fright On A Summer Night by Mary Pope Osborne (Tudor Era) Summer of the Sea Serpent by Mary Pope Osborne (Arthurian) Summersaults by Douglas Florian (Timeless) Ages 10-13 Bartholomew Fair by Mary Stolz (Medieval Times) One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia […]
HISTORIC INACCURACY: THE WAR OF THE BUCKET
Legend has it that 1325 war between the Italian city-states of Modena and Bologna started over the theft of a bucket. Not so. It was a lot more involved than that.
HISTORIC MYTH: NERO AND HIS FIDDLE
Was the Roman Emperor Nero a nice emperor? No. Most of them weren’t and he was not an exception, but also might not have been quite as bad as he’s been portrayed. Did he really play the fiddle while Rome burned? Well, again, no. He couldn’t have. Violins had not yet been invented, and there […]
Time Travelling With Kids 