The Top 8 Hikes Near Santa Fe
From the tufa-carved Pajarito Plateau to a field of conical rock formations, here are the best hikes near Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Learning with Firsties
Whew!!! What a week! We finished up our unit on American Symbols. I purchased Deanna Jump's American Symbol unit and loved it. You can take a look at her unit (HERE) . I love to get ideas from other teachers. The kiddos had a great time learning all about the American Flag, the bald eagle, and the Statue of Liberty. We began the unit with the flag and I found a great app that we used to find all kinds of facts. We made an Anchor Chart together about the flag, wrote about it in our Social Studies journal and…
MLB’s Top 25 Designated Hitters of All Time
Beginning in the 1973 season, American League teams were able to use a designated hitter. Ron Bloomberg of the New York Yankees was the first DH, and there have been many more players who have filled the DH position since then...
Sonora Has The Most Charming Downtown District In All Of Northern California
Not only does this community boast tons of small-town charm, but they have the most fascinating historic downtown district as well.
Piano for the Bedridden
The photo above comes from the Spaarnestad collection in the Nationaal Archief - the National Archive of the Netherlands. The image is sourced to Great Britain and dated 1935, but carries no explanatory text other than "Piano especially designed for people who are confined to bed." Perhaps some Neatorama reader with a knowledge of music history can provide additional information regarding this remarkable invention. Nationaal Archief's Flickr photostream....
Limbo
Limbo (1920) is a collection of short fiction by English author Aldous Huxley. Mostly satirical, Huxley’s novella, play, and four short stories show a promising writer at the very beginning of his career. In the novella “The Farcical History of Richard Greenow,” Huxley satirizes the lives of his friends and acquaintances at Eton and Oxford. Richard Greenow, a young writer, spends his days as a politically engaged academic. At night, however, he writes fiction for women, crafting stories and serialized novels he sells to a prominent women’s magazine. Finding success, he realizes there is a woman inside him, a writer…
20 Rural Island Ideas For Animal Crossing: New Horizons – FandomSpot
Rustic, shabby-chic, down-home, or country… Whatever you call a rural aesthetic, there’s something downright cozy about escaping out of the hustle and bustle of everyday life to something a little…
