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Tuesdays – Review Day – YIKES!

June 18, 2013 by tchistorygal

Today is Review Tuesday. According to my poll TV and movie reviews were much more popular with my voters than books. Since , today is the first day of my Tuesday schedule I thought I ‘d start out by showing you my page on Book Reviews because many people don’t click on pages, but some of you have commented on my organization. I’m an organized mess – not a Hot Mess, Ralph! Though not a professional reviewer, I was an […]

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Categories: About, Blogging, Books, Experience, Writing • Tags: book review, Common Core, Education, Marsha Lee, movie review, tv review

Blogging Schedule

June 14, 2013 by tchistorygal

I want to thank you for responding to my last poll. Y’all blew me away with an astounding 98 responses. That’s up from ZERO on my first poll. Your opinons about the schedule of topics on my blog are as follows: Topics % of Responses Preparing for retirement & living the life 11% Blogging advice and bloopers 10% Book reviews 10% Local adventures and photographic sprees 10% My travels with various folks 9% Photography advice – what I’m learning from my […]

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Categories: About, Blogging, Books, California, Challenges, Experience • Tags: blogging, Marsha Lee, scheduling blog posts

Book Review: The Worst Hard Time…

June 12, 2013 by tchistorygal

Before I start my book review, which I promised you last week, I want to thank you for responding to my poll yesterday. I will be establishing a posting schedule in a few days based on your advice. Attention English teachers!!! The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan reads almost like fiction. History and science teachers join forces by using this book as primary source background information to introduce or […]

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Categories: Books, Common Core, Education, history-social science, people, Real Estate • Tags: book review, cedar posts, Dust Bowl, Environment, history and science, Marsha Lee, shocking facts, The Worst Time, timothy egan, wooden shacks, worst natural disaster

Blogging friend Darla Welchel posted this picture on FB

Daily Prompt: Silver Linings

June 2, 2013 by tchistorygal

Extreme bad times give birth to silver linings. Disasters and tragedy can bring out the best in people. Right now we think of those in Oklahoma who are suffering with the ugly effects of tornadoes. They need to see beyond their present circumstances and know that there will be a silver lining, or they might give up hope. It makes those of us who are not touched by those tragedies to give gratefully to help those in need. People in […]

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Categories: Daily Prompt, Events, Experience, WP Weekly Photo Challenge, Writing • Tags: Dust Bowl, harelip, Holocaust, Marsha Lee, Oklahoma City Bomber, Oklahoma tornadoes, silver linings, WP Writing Prompt

Book Review: Soul’s Child

May 17, 2013 by tchistorygal

Soul’s Child, the 2012 award-winning spell binder by Dianne Gray, unearthed and explored a love/hate relationship between co-dependent father and daughter after the accident in which Aurora Jones’ mother and younger sister died, and left Aurora in a coma for three weeks. The accident also gave Aurora an insatiable and uncontrollable urge to draw unnaturally realistic scenes she had never experienced. Although she hid her drawings, her father, originally Mervin Oswald Jones, discovered their secret meanings, and began to […]

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Categories: Books, Common Core, Education, Fiction • Tags: Amazon, Dianne Gray, Marsha Lee, Souls Child

Norton I, Emperor of the United States…

May 15, 2013 by tchistorygal

Joshua Abraham Norton came from England to the United States, and like thousands of others rushed to California to enlarge his already hefty fortune of $40,000. After amassing up to $250,000 at his peak, Norton eventually lost his fortune and his sanity. Losing his sanity, however, did not affect his ability to make an impact on his community. Good-looking, with a TOUCH of grandiosity, he declared himself Emperor of the United States, fired the President, and abolished Congress through a series […]

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Categories: California, history-social science, San Francisco • Tags: Emperor Norton I, Joshua Abraham Norton, Marsha Lee, San Francisco history

Founded in 1851, about the same time Tulare County was established.

WordPress Photo Challenge: Pattern

May 14, 2013 by tchistorygal

As Sarah Rosso says, “Patterns are everywhere. Patterns are sometimes intentional and sometimes accidental. They can be decorative or merely a result of repetition, and often patterns can be in the eye of the beholder to discover them.” I love lines and shadows, bricks and glass. Patterns can be numbers. like how many petals on a flower, or leaves on a stem, or points on a leaf. My friend Jean and I just got back from San Francisco. This beautiful church, […]

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Categories: architecture, art, California, Challenges, Common Core, Education, San Francisco, WP Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: Marsha Lee, San Francisco Marriott Marquis, St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Yerba Buena Gardens

A Book Review: Wolf Pear

May 2, 2013 by tchistorygal

You all know that I’m a Dianne Gray fan, and I just finished reading her 2010 novel Wolf Pear. The reader has no idea whether or not the two main protagonists, JD Cusack and Esther Crooke will ever meet. Both characters mistreated as children, you hope that the something in the story will turn out well for them. Poor Esther, fat, lonely, and constantly tormented, has worked her way into a very successful business with her best friend, Sandy in spite […]

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Categories: Books • Tags: book review, Dianne Gray, Marsha Lee, Wolf Pear

Book Review: The Secret Child by Marti Healy

April 29, 2013 by tchistorygal

Even in 1855 few humans had choose between living in an enchanted forest with fairies or living with humans, between dwelling in a forested utopia or in a nation about to be torn by the most devastating war in the history of the United States, or between becoming immortal or remaining mortal. Cian, a fairy whose Gaelic name meant ancient, dreamed about the coming of a secret child to the hidden community of fairies who inhabited the forest known as […]

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Categories: Books, Experience • Tags: Book Hub, celtic mythology, Christine Louise McNamera, Marsha Lee, Marti Healy, sci-fi, Secret Child

This quilt is up on the wall, but the squirrel is up, too.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Up

April 21, 2013 by tchistorygal

I enjoy the WordPress challenges. This one, UP, was particularly fun. Up is ubiquitous. As I looked up my photos, “up” took on one meaning after another. Some of my up connections may be stretching it a bit, but I’ve heard them all used – or used them myself. Yesterday I wanted to finish up showing my favorite quilt show pictures using different challenges, but then I wondered…. Are you fed up with quilts, or are you still upbeat about […]

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Categories: Challenges, Experience, history-social science, Photography, WP Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: Allensworth, Colonial Williamsburg, Marsha Lee, photography, UP, WP Photo Challenge

Kiwanis Roundup for Hunger

April 13, 2013 by tchistorygal

Can you believe that I could get somewhere – anywhere at 6:15 a.m.?Good, that means you know me pretty well. I got there at 6:25 a.m., complete with camera, but my disk had no space AND no pictures. What’s up with that? I learned how to format my disk today because of it. Needless to say, I was a little late to my assigned post, but I got there. It turned out that many people came to help, so I […]

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Categories: Events, Experience, Tulare County, Woodlake Kiwanis

Need Faith In the Future? Interview Today’s Students

April 12, 2013 by tchistorygal

Want more hope? Today I got a major shot of hope when I interviewed seniors from Woodlake High School about the portfolios they do as a graduation requirement. I should have illegally taken pictures of them as I was grading them this week, but rats, I just now thought of it. Meeting these students in person brightened my day today. Students begin working on the portfolios long before they have the interview. They start their freshman year collecting evidence of […]

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Categories: Education, Events, Experience • Tags: future, portfolio exit interviews, Woodlake High School

Step one cut the list from the WP reader.

What Are You Reading?

April 11, 2013 by tchistorygal

“What did you read today?” asks my book-reviewing blogging friend, Marcia. That question made me examine my reading habits. What I really love is drivel. Shock! I thought I was an intellectual! Drivel is different from trivia, the plural of trivium. Drivel is “silly nonsense”, while trivia (pl) are a step above that, “inconsequential or insignificant matters.” Actually I love both. And I can spend enormous amounts of time organizing myself so that I can enjoy my drivel to the […]

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Categories: Blogging, Books, Writing • Tags: blogging, reading, trivia

Dam 50th Anniversary

March 30, 2013 by tchistorygal

What would you do with an unruly river that tumbles 12,000 feet from the Sierra Nevada Mountains starting in the Sequoia National Park? No other North American river, including the Colorado River, drops so far in such a short distance. What would you do if its unruliness built up one the most fertile deltas in the West? What would you do if it emptied into the largest body of fresh water in the lower 48 states west of the […]

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Categories: history-social science, mountains, Tulare County • Tags: floods, Floods of the Kaweah, Kaweah River, Mark, Tilchen, Tulare County

Wicked Weekend in Oz for History Gals

March 19, 2013 by tchistorygal

Some people got to family reunions. Some go to class reunions? Other people meet in different ways and click, and then start to do things together in a group. Do you travel with a group of people? Do you plan for months and all look forward for weeks and even months for just a few short days or hours together? Before this group of women came into my life, I never had this experience with more than another couple. I […]

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Categories: California, Events, Photography, restaurants, Travel • Tags: fun with friends, History Gals, Oz, South Coast Plaza, the Great and Powerful, Wicked, Wizard of Oz

Joy Soares dressed in 1940s style including a black line drawn up her leg. Styling, Joy!

National History Day – California – Tulare County a Huge Success

March 14, 2013 by tchistorygal

This was my first year in the past twelve years NOT to coordinate Tulare County’s History Day event. The job now falls on my dear friend, Joy Soares, who took my place as the History Consultant at the County Office. She has enough energy and ideas for three people, and indeed more than three people kept very busy bringing this exciting day to fruition. My job in all of this was to represent two volunteer organizations, San Joaquin Valley Council […]

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Categories: Common Core, Education, Events, history-social science, Quilting, SJVCSS, TCHS • Tags: Japanese Internment, Joy Soares, NHD-CA, San Joaquin Valley Council for the Social Studies, SJVCSS, TCHS, Tulare County Historical Society, Tulare County History Day, valleysocialstudies

Eva Patterson will be speaking in a panel at the CCSS Conference in Burlingame on March 9, 2013

Eva Paterson: Heroine of the Civil Rights Era Who Kept Moving On

March 2, 2013 by tchistorygal

Eva Paterson was only a teenager when she debated Spiro Agnew on national television in 1970. When she became an attorney she fought for Civil Rights for many underserved groups of people. Though she grew up in a violent home, she became a champion for those whose rights were challenged at home or in society. In the late 1970s she successfully sued the Oakland Police Department for not coming to the aide of battered women. “Prior to taking the helm […]

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Categories: CCSS, Experience, history-social science, Organizations, San Francisco • Tags: CCSS 2013 Conference, Equal Justice Society, Eva Patterson, social justice, Social Studies on the March

Terry Ommen, Tulare County Historical Society, conducts a tour of Tulare County. This stop, near the original site of the Election Tree.

A Little Foothill High School History

February 23, 2013 by tchistorygal

Sally Pace asked me to do a column of Foothill History for the Kiwanis magazine which is published quarterly. Our larger community consists of several small foothill towns ranging from populations of about 3,000-8,000. From north to south the communities are: Woodlake, Lemon Cove, Three Rivers, the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, and Exeter. Then a little farther south, still in the foothills, but not considered in our neighborhood are: Lindsay, Porterville (about 45,000 pop.), and Springville (very […]

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Categories: About, Education, history-social science, TCHS, Tulare County • Tags: CA, foothill community, Frank Ainley, history, Marsha Lee, Running P Ranch, Sally Pace, Woodlake, Woodlake High School

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Tuesdays – Review Day – YIKES!

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Blogging Schedule

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Daily Prompt: Silver Linings

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Book Review: Soul’s Child

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WordPress Photo Challenge: Pattern

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A Book Review: Wolf Pear

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Book Review: The Secret Child by Marti Healy

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Kiwanis Roundup for Hunger

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Need Faith In the Future? Interview Today’s Students

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What Are You Reading?

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Wicked Weekend in Oz for History Gals

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