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.
18th Century Virginia Musings
Category: Our Homeschool at Bluebonnet Ridge
My daughter’s Costume to present the Renaissance at College
My daughter wore a Venetian gown I had sewn to college for her architecture presentation in her Renaissance art, literature, and history class.
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.
After failure, we found a credentialed vision therapist
After an eye doctor took our money to set my daughter up for vision therapy, he did nothing. Our journey to find a credentialed vision doctor and therapist.
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.
Accelerating in the kitchen with Physics I
Stumbling upon him, I asked him about his latest experiment.
He was measuring the rates of acceleration as he changed the slope of the board.
Homeschool graduate diagnosed with eye tracking difficulties
He said she is such a sweet girl and must be a genius, to have had such horrible eye tracking issues all these years and yet still be successful in school.
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.
