1950s Hawaiian BBQ, Enigma Quiz Show: End of Homeschool Era
After we shed tears, my kids proclaimed that I need to write everything down, so they can recreate their homeschool experience with their own kids someday.
Historical Sewing and Time Travels
Category: Becoming History Presentations – Rhetoric
Hollywood Cantina, Spying in a French Museum: WWII
Presenting my son who portrayed a West Point grad, I portrayed Rose Valland helping the Monuments Men, and my daughter portrayed one of the Andrews sisters!
1930s Dinner at Chartwell House, home of Winston Churchill
My son was Dietrich Bonhoeffer, I portrayed Winston Churchill’s daughter, Mary, and my college daughter became Anna, daughter of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
From 17th century to Roaring Twenties and Stock Market Crash
My daughter portrayed the 18th century, my son was Charles Lindbergh, and I represented a lady married to a Wall Street broker…to bring the 1920s to life!
Napoleon of the West organizes Progressive Dinner 1900-1920
Christy Huddleston, a teacher in the Smokey Mountains, Isabella Hagnar, first White House social secretary, and Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, WWI Flying Ace.
Rough Riders, Biltmore House, Gilded Age 1877-1898
Presenting Rough Rider David Leahy, Mrs. George Washington Vanderbilt, and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt from the Gilded Age, at the end of the 19th century.
Picnic at First Battle of Manassas, Napoleon, and Taps
Ccertain that this battle would result in a quick Union victory, we left Washington DC this lovely morning to Manassas to watch the battle during our picnic.
Texas Independence with Tocqueville, Lafayette and Napoleon
I portrayed a founder of an 1837 Texas town named La Grange, the county, Fayette, and the streets, Washington, Lafayette, Jefferson, and Madison.
Meriweather Lewis, Bonapartes, and Lafayettes
Since the kids were happy to invite Napoleon to our rhetoric Becoming History presentation, we each shared part of his story, mingled with others.
Cato, Recitations, and Minuet at our Subscription Ball
Philip Vickers Fithian wrote in his journal: Virginians must dance or they will die. Thus, Virginians found a legal loophole around the “no frivolity” mandate.
