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- location of what used to be a 2nd village. We have a photo of
"our" village in the 1870s or 80s. Lots of buildings. It would be fun to have a time machine & spend a day on our 5 acres as it was 100 years ago! _______________________________________________________________
coming into a period of inert youth. The students have been politically underlined apathetic for several years now. But this is the first time I've had them wither in classroom too. My other class, on the Jewish Holocaust, was very responsive. Thank heaven. I doubt I could endure a semester teaching only underlined sleepwalkers. There would be no sense in undertaking the obvious anguish without some strong interest.. I was pleased at the diversity among the 35 in the course. About 2/3 Jewish, half male & half female, from some 20 different majors.
I am finally through with grading & have
nearly cleaned up the myriad odds & ends of chores I have had to postpone in the last 3 rushed months. So I'm on the verge of fulltime scholarly work .First, I need to finish up a long article on why Auschwitz was not bombed. Then into the main business, the sequel to Paper Wallsunderlined.
We both hope Gladys has completed a full recovery &
is back to par.
Chicken is whomping up some corn muffins for lunch.
And I'm heading in to chomp them up. We've been on a corn muffin kick for some months now. I'm rather daft about them. We are about to buy a little hand mill to grind corn we raised last summer on our good N.H. dirt. Our garden, just by luck, turned out to be on the site of a Shaker vegetable garden of the 1800's. Did I ever tell you that our own cottage in N.H.is next to a still-functioning (tho only barely) Shaker Village, & on the very*
Best wishes, Dave & Midge (Chicken)