Last year as I was brainstorming ideas for local outings suitable to a year of studying Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Classical Greece, Republic and Empirical Rome and its demise, I scheduled in several focus trips to our local Chrysler Museum of … Continue reading The Moses Myers House
In my recent post Connecting Architecture to History, I described how we chose to include a regular study of Architecture in our homeschool. Because we were studying Classical Greece, when I decided to pursue this idea, we started with columns! … Continue reading Architecture Scavenger Hunt!
Having grown up in various regions of the Old Dominion I’ve been surrounded by Classical Architecture all my life. From the capital city of Richmond, the outskirts of Washington D.C., the Shenandoah Valley and Blue Ridge, to the Chesapeake Bay … Continue reading Connecting Architecture to History
Curious? Good! Ralph’s Father’s Day Post has three components: Part One is a quick telling of Father’s Day board game fun, Part Two is a quick review of the board game Serenissima, and Part Three is what is called a … Continue reading Father’s Day on the Mediterranean…
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