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THE WEATHER'S TURNED CHILLY, the neighbors' houses are bedecked
with porch pumpkins, and it's school visit season. Since I wrote
to you - and it's been WAY too long, I know - my Scottie, Maude,
died. She surely was a good old dog. I even miss lugging her up
and down the stairs. Her legs were too short to climb them on
her own.
I've been meeting people who've read and cried over my first novel, JUST
FOR YOU TO KNOW. When this book isn't funny, it's awfully sad.
Man oh man oh man, if you haven't read it, please do. You won't
be sorry!
The National Geographic is just now publishing the 4th in our
series of eight "Cheryl Harness Histories": The Trailblazing
Life of DANIEL BOONE & How Early AMERICANS Took to the ROAD.
After that, be watching for No. 5, a book about botanist GEORGE
WASHINGTON CARVER + American science, inquiry, & invention. No.
6 will be about our country's customs and stories that make up
American Folklore. The book will also be a biography of
author/traveler/diplomat WASHINGTON IRVING who wrote about Rip
Van Winkle & the Headless Horseman (not in the same story -
interesting idea though, huh?) No. 7: showman PHINEAS T. BARNUM
& a history of entertainment; No. 8: DOLLEY MADISON & THE YOUNG
REPUBLIC. I'm learning so much about our country writing and
illustrating these books.
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Do check out this website: www.NANOWRIMO.org Why? You'll find
out!
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So who has autumn birthdays? Well, of course, one of my favorite
presidents, John Adams, would be 272 years old on Oct. 30, if
he hadn't kicked the bucket back in 1826. And one of my favorite
artists, Jan Vermeer, would be 375 on Oct. 31. And November is
loaded with anniversaries of the births of all sorts of interesting
people from Daniel Boone, Marie Antoinette, and Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
(modern, excellent author) on the 2nd, to Mark Twain, Winston
Churchill, and author Jonathan Swift on the 30th.
[www.famousbirthdays.com]
[www.theodoreroosevelt.org]
Other cool stuff:
[www.kidinfo.com]
[www.educationindex.com/history/]
[www.besthistorysites.net]
[www.pbs.org/history ]
[www.lewisandclarktrail.com,
www.lewis-clark.org]
[www.simonsaysTEACH.com]
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