I went to Boston the for the 2014 conference of the National Council of Teachers of English. I spoke in a session called Learning with and from Families. My paper was about work that I had done when I was still a teacher in Springville. I wrote the proposal to go to the conference when I had just moved to Lawrence and we were homeless. I remember sitting in the dim lit temporary housing while Hannah slept trying to feel a sense of normalcy when I opened my email and saw Last Call for NCTE proposals and I cracked one out and uploaded it 10 minutes before the deadline. When I found I was going in May, I was so excited. It gave me a good memory from what was a really hard time in our transition to Lawrence.
Map of historic Boston sights.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow home.
Orchard House.
Emerson home.
I spoke at the conference and did some touring. I went to see the sights of Boston and then headed over to Cambridge and toured Harvard Yard and the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow home. I also went out to Concord and saw where the minutemen fired down on the redcoats at the beginning of the war for Independence. I also saw Ralph Waldo Emerson's house, the Concord Museum and Orchard House where Louisa May Alcott lived with her family as an adult. It was a tricky proposition navigating colonial America. The roads are named for the place where the road ends. So Lexington Road is in Concord and Concord Road is in Lexington, but get this ... IT IS THE SAME ROAD! A nice couple gave me a ride in Concord to Orchard House or I never would have found it. I walked back to the train station about 3 miles. Very tiring, but I was so glad I went. I love Louisa May Alcott.
In other news, I won another award for my academic writing. Outstanding Author Contribution for a chapter I wrote. All in all, a good weekend.
I spoke at the conference and did some touring. I went to see the sights of Boston and then headed over to Cambridge and toured Harvard Yard and the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow home. I also went out to Concord and saw where the minutemen fired down on the redcoats at the beginning of the war for Independence. I also saw Ralph Waldo Emerson's house, the Concord Museum and Orchard House where Louisa May Alcott lived with her family as an adult. It was a tricky proposition navigating colonial America. The roads are named for the place where the road ends. So Lexington Road is in Concord and Concord Road is in Lexington, but get this ... IT IS THE SAME ROAD! A nice couple gave me a ride in Concord to Orchard House or I never would have found it. I walked back to the train station about 3 miles. Very tiring, but I was so glad I went. I love Louisa May Alcott.
In other news, I won another award for my academic writing. Outstanding Author Contribution for a chapter I wrote. All in all, a good weekend.
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I bet Hannah missed you!