My museum, Dallas Heritage Village
An interview with the North Carolina State University Alumni Association (July 2015)
Story about me taking on the ED role in the Dallas Morning News (August 2014): Dallas Heritage Village Preserves History But Looks Forward
Since 2001 (holy crap–that’s 15 years!), I’ve kept a reading journal. 2001 was the year I graduated college, so it flows through that last year at Hendrix, into grad school, early working years, furlough years and now the executive director years. Most likely, I’ll never again hit the highs of 2001 (116 books), aided in […]
When a favorite book is adapted for the screen, I try to keep an open mind. I really, really do. And there were reasons to be cautiously optimistic about the latest Anne of Green Gables movie. The casting of Anne was more age appropriate. It was filmed on Prince Edward Island. And the granddaughter of […]
There are certain periods in history that seem to get all the attention. The pioneer experience. The Civil War. World War II. I’ve always enjoyed the less exposed parts of history more. My “preferred” war is World War 1, and the quantity of material centered around it pales in comparison to WWII. Though I know […]
The Junior Historians at DHV are hard at work on a new exhibit for our school house. Way back when we first starting talking about stories, we knew we had to include discipline. Someone else (not me!) said “why don’t we look at children’s literature and see what we can find? “
In anticipation of a solitary road trip, I headed to the library for an audio book. Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos caught my eye, in part due to these lines in the description: “melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional.” Now, this was something that would make the miles pass faster. As […]
