Wild young Danes
The last night of my trip to the Society for the History of Childhood and Youth conference, I walked through the center of Copenhagen and kept coming across young Danes in white hats, riding in decorated trucks, climbing the fountains of one of the central squares, and whooping it up (see the pictures below the […]
Norrköping trip photos, set 2
More photos from the Norrköping trip, just from the last evening in Copenhagen. I was exhausted by the end, but you should be able to identify the photographs related to my research. (I’ll highlight it in another entry in a few days.) Panoramic photograph of Kongens Nyrtorv (or King’s New) Square at sunset after the […]
Norrköping trip photos, set 1
You can now see photos of the trip to and the environment of the conference. I’m doing my best to stay up a few hours longer so I can get the pain of jet lag out of the way by tomorrow morning. So while I have loads to catch up on, a little travelogue: June […]
"Roosevelt Amino Acids a2 + b2 i-before-e Hyperbole High School"
Danny Roosevelt has the concise and witty response to the latest silly study co-authored by Jay Greene, purportedly about how Florida schools are named horribly, after things such as “Lake Magdalene” and “Orange Grove” instead of famous people such as Thomas Jefferson or even local heroes such as Richard Pride (who fought for civil Rights in Tampa). […]
Free trade doesn’t cover this one
By Sherman Dorn on July 5, 2007
The general principle with travel is to leave footprints and take pictures (and memories), so I didn’t return with much physical stuff, other than two Anders F. Rönnblom albums, two postcards, one book on international historical perspectives on child labor, and a copy of the Daily Mail to show my children what tabloid papers are […]
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