Sacagawea joins Lincoln and Grant

Sacagawea IMA Hero Teddy Bear

Sacagawea joins Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant 

in the Land of Lincoln.

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Prize-Winning Author 

Mary W. Schaller &  Robert E. Tour the Country in 2001

(Although the tour is over, the reports are timeless.)

Lincoln travels the Pennsylvania Turnpike

Travel the Pennsylvania Turnpike with Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant and find out what Lincoln says about the Lincoln Douglass Debate.

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Prize-Winning Author 

Mary W. Schaller &  Robert E. Tour the Country in 2001

(Although the tour is over, the reports are timeless.)

Mother's Day May 13, 2012

Happy Mother’s Day

Did you know Mother’s Day has a connection to the American Civil War?

“In 1868 Ann Jarvis created a committee to establish a "Mother's Friendship Day" whose purpose was to reunite families that had been divided during the Civil War."*    (*Wikipedia)

Today Mother’s Day is celebrated on the second Sunday in May to pay tribute to all mothers and just to have a good time.  


This year Mother's Day is May 13, 2012.

Happy Mother’s Day to Everyone.

Texas Wild Fire from Space

Photo Credit:  http://twitpic.com/6h2y5w

Photo from Astronaut Ron Garan,

who is on the International Space Station,

shows us the wild fires in Texas

as seen from space.

New photos of Astronauts Footprints

Photo credit:  NASA

See footprints and trash left behind on the moon on these newly released 

photos of the Lunar Landing.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter took photographs of the

Apollo lunar landing sites from 13 to 15 miles above the moon's surface.

See more of the lunar video

Teddy Bears Teach about the Civil War

New Blog Coming Soon

PAPA WAS A BOY IN GRAY

Prize-Winning Author 

Mary W. Schaller
& Robert E. Tour the Country in 2001

(Although the tour is over, the reports are timeless.)

Summer Tour: Four teddy bears (Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, and Sacagawea) accompanied Mary W. Schaller on her 2001 book tour for Papa Was A Boy In Gray.  The bears (with a little help from the author) wrote reports, highlights, stories, and posed for photos of all the Summer Excitement.  Now you can read these reports in the upcoming blogs. 


Book Summary: In the closing years of the twentieth century, a small group of women gave new meaning to the words "living history."  Some were merely old; others were spectacularly ancient.  All of them shared a unique position in America's history.  These ladies were the surviving daughters of the men who fought for the Confederacy between 1861-1865.  Their fathers left their indelible imprints upon their daughters, whose living legacy now casts a beam of light upon the vastly different world when Papa Was A Boy In Gray.

Mary W. Schaller is the prize-winning author of four plays and seven historical novels set in the English Renaissance. Over a million copies of her books have appeared in print world-wide.

First Posting to my new blog

Photo:  NASA

Excitement is in the air as my first blog takes off and is posted for all to see.
Many topics will come up in the future and will center around having fun learning history (yes, that boring subject for many of you).
Hopefully as you continue to visit my blog, you too will be having fun with history.