While we were in Madison, Wisconsin, we visited the Henry Vilas Zoo. This very nice zoo shares a rare and much-appreciated trait with our own local zoo, the National Zoo in Washington, D.C.: Admission is FREE! Scattered around the zoo are animal statues, each one decorated by a different artist. Jon Morgan was determined to have his photo taken ( Read more... )

I chaperoned a field trip today. My son's class went to Claude Moore Colonial Farm, a surprisingly bucolic setting right in the middle of Mclean, Virginia, close to the CIA headquarters at Langley. We made candles the colonial way, out of beeswax and tallow; watched wool carding and spinning; looked at tobacco drying in the tobacco barn; pounded ( Read more... )