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Today we go exploring in a completely “Viking” way!

Our first stop is inside the pages of a new favorite for us called Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman.

I think Neil Gaiman is one of the most inventive authors out there. His writing style is simple, he keeps us engaged with every page ,  every twist and turn, and those incredible scary moments that we know are coming but surprise us every single time. Every tale is unique unto itself regardless of genre. We read Neil Gaiman because we know that every story will be told masterfully.

Today’s story is no different. It is a heartfelt story of a young boy named Odd, which means point in the Norse languages, who has had some very bad luck. His father died during a Viking expedition. His mother is remarried to a man who looks at Odd as an unworthy misfit. Out in the woods a tree falls on Odds leg and shatters it, making him even more a misfit. The winters have come to a unending state and has made not only the people in house grumpy but the villagers at large. Odd, in his frustration decides to leave the house.

While in his father’s workshop cabin, he encounters a fox who persuades him to follow him. As Odd does so he discovers what the fox is wanting to show him, a bear and an Eagle. This motley crew has a very strange story to tell. Such as, they’re actually Norse Gods who have been kicked out of Asgard by the Frost Giants. Not only this but they have been turned into animals. Committed to his new found friends, Odd takes a journey he had never imagined. He is going to save Asgard and return the gods to their proper dwelling place. To restore the gods to Asgard and put an end to the long winter, Odd will have to use all his skills. To do this, he is going to have to outwit the frost giants. Is he clever enough, cheerful to the point of being infuriating enough ? You’ll have to see.

This is an endearing short tale that will have you on the edge of your seat routing for Odd! Grab your copy of Odd and the Frost Giants HERE.

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Field Trip

Today we are going on a field trip! Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live as a Viking ? Well wonder no more. My family is from Sweden from the island of Gotland. Every summer we go to bonafide Viking Camp. A few years ago my son had the most amazing experience. Here’s a look at his adventure back into the Viking Times.

Life in a Viking Village
By Valarie Budayr (as told by her son “O”)

We were just out walking, my mom and I, when we came across an old carved stone. There it was just standing out in the field. “Mom, do you know what this is for?” I asked.

“Well, it is a rune stone placed by a Viking to tell of the heroic deeds of one who died in battle or at sea. It is written in Viking symbols called runes or runic.”

“Can I touch it?” I asked.

“I don’t see why not,” she replied. “It’s been standing here for a thousand years or so and I don’t think you touching it will have any effect.”

It was amazing to feel this old stone. Parts of it were smooth while other parts were carved very deep. As I was tracing the designs of the stone I could smell smoke being blown on the breeze.  “Mom, do you smell smoke?”

But my mom wasn’t there. I started running through the field from the direction we came only now there stood a large wooden house. I didn’t remember seeing it before but I was sure my mom had to be in there. As I approached the door I could see blue smoke. What was that? It was very dark in there and all I could make out was a fire and some furniture. Entering the hall, I realized that this was a Viking long house, where the Viking chief and his clan would eat and celebrate. I had read about it in my Viking books.  I was the only one in there.  Where was my mom?

As I turned to leave, I heard a woman yelling at me from outside.  “Boy, boy, come out of there and have something to eat before it’s time to go.” Bounding out of the long house, I asked,” Go where?”

“Well to games school of course,” the voice of the unseen woman answered. “Come and have some barley bread and honey.”

Suddenly, there she was; a very kind looking woman baking bread on a hot iron pan. She was dressed in clothes from a different time period. She wore big brass pins to hold up each side of her dress. On her head she wore a headscarf and turned her bread with wooden spoons.  It sure smelled good.  I decided to have some and afterwards I would look for my mom again.  As I was eating a loud horn was being blown and then loud shouting.

“Invader! An invader! We have a thief amongst us!”

As I turned around, I saw a man running out to the center of the field and someone was chasing him.  Soon swords were clashing and shields were being butted against each other and held up to stop the crashing blow from the flying swords. They too were dressed in clothes I had never seen before.  It didn’t take long for either one of them to be disarmed. Both were very good swordsmen. The fight wasn’t over, however. Once they were both free of swords and shields they started wrestling. They kept flipping each other until one of them could no longer get up. The men who had been fighting were now lending a helping hand to get up, hugging each other, and laughing. The young woman who had baked my bread was clapping and laughing as well.

I didn’t know what would happen next. It was all so odd.  Somehow between the barley bread and the sword fighting I realized that, though I was in the same place, I wasn’t in the same time. Could it be true that I had somehow ended up in a Viking village in Viking times?

The answers to these questions would soon be answered when one of the fighting men grabbed me firmly on the shoulder and asked, “What’s your weapon?”

“Bow” I said.

Laughing loudly, he said, “That will do you from a distance but if you should ever get close to your opponent, he will have the best of you.  I’ll see you in the field then young brother and we’ll see what other sports we can teach you.”

Following a group of boys and men, together we arrived at a Games Course. Inside were a variety of games, archery, axe throwing, tug of war and log tossing.  As I walked in, there were two people sitting on a log, hitting each other with pillows until one of them fell off. All of the boys around my age were brought into the center of the arena and the men who had been fighting were standing before us.

“Can anyone tell me what this is?” I asked.

“A spear!” came a shout from the back.

“Exactly. Though the spear is very long and many people like to throw it,” answered my companion. “Its real purpose is to be used to stop a horse and rider. Hold the spear against your foot like this. The horse will toss its rider and you will be able to face your opponent.”

Next up was the axe. A Viking always carries a bow, axe, shield and sword.

They even sleep with them near their bed because invaders especially like to come at night. I learned that there are two kinds of swords. The ones the Vikings make themselves, which are very much lighter, and the ones that they acquire on raids. These are heavier metals and have rounded hilts (handles). I also learned that shields are a swordsman’s best friend. There are a couple of ways to use a shield. One use is to join a friend’s shield with yours and hold them together.Another use is to bump into an opponent’s shield, knocking them off balance.

The lessons suddenly turned serious when we came to the topic of chainmail. Only the very rich could afford chainmail as body armor. One piece of chainmail costs about 200,000 dollars. Much of the metal needed is gathered on raids and then re-purposed for chain mail. It is extremely heavy but absolutely protects from a sideways blow of both axe and sword.

“Thank you young brothers,” shouted my companion. “Now it’s time to go off to your other courses. We will see you this afternoon for games practice.” Leaving the games course, we walked into a small wooden village where we were divided into small groups which would rotate through various daily tasks. First it was leather making. Everyone had to make their own shoes. Both men and women make shoes for children but once you are 10 years old, you are expected to make your own.

Each village and clan makes their own beads by melting sand into glass. You can tell where somebody comes from by the beads they are wearing. Bigger villages become trading centers for smaller villages to swap items they have for items they need. Many times beads are used in the exchange. This village has a large assortment of beads from all over the Viking world. I traded a leather purse I had made for the prettiest beads so I could make my mother a necklace.

Another daily task is gathering flax and wool to weave into rugs, blankets, and clothing. Using various flowers and herbs, we made our own dyes to color our newly spun wool. My favorite color is the yellow which comes from dyeing birch bark. An entire small wooden house was made for textiles and weaving.

Among the other houses for doing chores were blacksmithing and iron making, pottery with clay we gather from the sea, wood carving, and the board game house to teach strategy.  No matter how many tasks there are to be completed in a day it always comes back to one thing and that is be ready for an attack by raiders.Much time is spent in forging swords, making shields, and bending metal for chainmail. Ironically, I found this to be a peaceful task.

While I would bend the metal from one link to another, I could hear children playing, women talking, and the sound of birds and the breeze blowing in the grass. In the distance is the sound of the sea crashing against the shore. In the late afternoon, when the shadows are getting long, a horn blows in the distance. It’s time to suit up for the afternoon games. It’s a time for much “play” fighting, arrow shooting, axe throwing, wresting, log tossing, and shield butting.

Though our teachers make mock sword fighting look so easy, it is very difficult. At home I can really move my wooden sword around very fast. It’s another story when the sword and helmet are made out of metall. Add chainmail to that and I’m not going anywhere fast. In fact I can barely hold my head up and my shoulder aches to even hold my sword up for more than a couple of seconds.

As I was walking away from the game field, I heard my mother calling me from a distance.  “Omi, Omi, …….” I ran towards the end of the village and the sound of her voice.  Before getting to the entrance, a hand grabbed my arm. A man with long brown hair said, “Always know where all of the entrances into a village are. Invaders can raid at anytime and you need to be able to escape. Remember, the nearest exit may be behind you. Be well young brother.”

Wow, I didn’t know that was a Viking saying..

I ran through the gate and towards my mother’s voice. When I got through the gate, the village disappeared.

“ Omi, wake up. It’s time to go.”  I heard my mom say.

As I opened my eyes, my mother was folding up the picnic blankets next to the Viking stone we had found.

“Come on sleepy head,” she coaxed. “If you don’t wake up now you won’t sleep tonight.”

Walking back to the house I felt something in my pocket. I reached in to feel the beaded necklace I had made for my mom. Had it really been a dream or had it really happened?

P.S. A few summers ago my son and I spent our vacation on the island of Gotland , in Sweden. Everywhere you turn on the island you can find evidence of the Vikings. The largest Viking hordes have been found on Gotland, one in particular was found by a school group touring an old Viking village.  We would like to thank Annie and all of our friends at the Tofta Viking Village .  They run an incredible program of Viking camps, long house feasts,and sharing their love of the Viking world with us modern people.

**Would you like to enjoy this Visit to a Viking Village adventure in a PDF form? If so, email my Head Elf at Becky (at) AudreyPress (dot) com and she will be happy to get you a copy!

***Does your young reader love books involving Vikings and Norse Gods? If so, check out my “Books Like Percy Jackson” booklist HERE! Happy reading!

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Last night Bookman and I went with a friend to see Amy Tan at the public library in downtown Minneapolis. It was quite a large crowd. We filled the auditorium and two overflow conference rooms. Whether there were more people than could fit I don’t know since I was squeezed into a seat in the auditorium. I am not a huge fan. I read and enjoyed The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God’s Wife. I have also read A Hundred Secret Senses and felt it was just meh, felt like her books were all about the same thing, so then lost interest. She now has a new book out, The Valley of Amazement. It is her first book in eight years.

After all the introductions were made, Tan stepped on stage. She is a small woman but she has a big presence. Instead of launching immediately into reading parts of her book she started talking. She explained that she has done a lot of things in the last eight years in order to avoid writing a book. On the long list is writing a libretto for an opera (she is a classically trained pianist) and, with her husband of 44 years, designing and building a completely accessible home in Sausalito, California. The house sounded gorgeous. Tan does not have children and she said she and her husband planned the house so they could live there for the rest of their lives. It has elevators, bathrooms large enough to get a wheelchair into, showers with grab bars and no edges, and all sorts of other features to accommodate every possible mobility issue.

And then she began talking about her grandmother and her mother. She has a photo of each of them on her desk. Her grandmother married the richest man in Shanghai at the time. They lived on an island just out from the city. There are two versions of the story of how she came to marry her husband. Tan’s grandmother and her half sister were staying at his house and at some point during the night the sister got up and left the room and the man came in. In one version of the story he held a knife to Tan’s grandmother’s throat and said if she didn’t marry him he would kill her. In the second version he held the knife to his own throat and said he would kill himself.

Tan’s grandmother was wife number four in the house, the youngest and the favorite. She had already had Tan’s mother and was pregnant again. She asked her husband if she had a boy would he please give her a house of her own in Shanghai. He said yes. She had a boy but her husband did not keep his side of the deal. Grandmother was 36 at the time and Tan’s mother was nine. She watched as her mother committed suicide by taking an overdose of opium. It took her three days to die. Tan’s mother was left with a father who was not kind and whom she did not love.

Tan said her mother always blamed Grandmother for all the hardship and unhappiness in her life. If she had not killed herself, Tan’s mother was convinced her own life would have been happier. Nonetheless, Tan’s mother thought she had done something to anger her mother and when Tan was a child and misbehaving, her mother was convinced that Tan was her mother come back to torment her for whatever it was she had done to anger her.

So it is no wonder Tan writes so much about mother-daughter relationships with such a family history and dynamic!

During Tan’s eight years between novels she had actually begun writing one but it wasn’t going all that well. She went to Shanghai to do some research and while there came across a photo of a group of courtesans. She was surprised to see that several of the women in the photograph were wearing the exact same outfit her grandmother was wearing in the photo Tan had of her on her desk. Curious, she began doing some research about courtesans and while she didn’t find any direct evidence, all the circumstantial evidence suggests that her grandmother was a courtesan. This discovery took her away from the book she had been writing and sent her off in a new direction leading to the writing of The Valley of Amazement.

Tan told the audience some of the really interesting things she learned about courtesans in Shanghai during the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. Then after 40 minutes of talking, she read a short piece from her book.

This was followed by questions from the audience. Someone asked for advice for aspiring writers and Tan talked about keeping internet distractions away. Someone else asked if she thought being bi-racial and bilingual helped her be more creative and she replied that she thought it did. Not that it made her smarter or better than anyone else, but that it gives her a bigger playing field. Another person asked about Tan’s father and what he was like since she never talks about him. Tan said she was a daddy’s girl, that she loved her father dearly. Tan was in her early teens when her father died and she felt like he had abandoned her to the crazy woman who was her mother. To Tan her father was perfect and perfect characters aren’t interesting to write about.

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Last week, good pal and Rhymes with Orange cartoonist Hilary Price and I drove over to coastal Mass to visit the great illustrator and drawing advocate Ed Emberley and his family.  Ed's career has had several iterations, from drawing highly complex images to his revolutionary and really, really fun drawing system work to digital illustration and collaborations with his daughter Rebecca. The

Summer is full of lots of field trips - so it seems that's what most of my posts are lately :)

This is the ferry from Fauntleroy (West Seattle) to SouthWorth (across the Pudget Sound), it sometimes has a stop on Vashon Island. Something about taking a ferry is magical (maybe because I don't commute on one).  Sunset sort of amps up the magic. Here are some shots from our trip.

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By: Kristin, on 1/28/2011
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Flying by the Island Maui on our way to the Big Island.
 

Greeted by natives right away - C and E are dying to hold one of these geckos, but the little guys are speedy! (and rather pretty I think)

 

First stop, snorkeling beach, salt and pepper sand, lava rocks, coral, amazing and colourful fish...

 

...and a few beautiful sea turtles napping on the rocks (they are protected animals and this was as close as we got, really pretty amazing).

 

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ade said, on 1/28/2011 8:51:00 PM

How fun - those boys are so dang handsome...look soo old. Beautiful pictures - thanks for sharing. Have a wonderful time. Love you!!

Diane said, on 1/29/2011 6:44:00 AM

I love Hawaii. We've been there tons - my sister lives there.

Jana said, on 1/29/2011 7:39:00 PM

Ahh, vacation sounds wonderful. I don't have to tell your boys to have fun!

Jamie said, on 1/31/2011 12:27:00 AM

Fun!!! Great pics!

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By: Kristin, on 10/18/2010
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A really great experience is to see the salmon returning home to spawn. Here in Seattle we think about salmon all the time and it is amazing to see them in person. I highly recommend:  

Issaquah Fish Hatchery
125 W. Sunset Way
Issaquah, WA 98027
Open daily during daylight hours; indoor exhibits are open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

If you can't make it at least check out the salmon cam
and your family can cheer along - Go Salmon Go!

We are participating in

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chicklegirl said, on 10/19/2010 11:59:00 AM

I agree; salmon are amazing.

A couple weeks ago we went to see the sockeyes spawning up on the Cle Elum River. They were beautiful.

The guy who led our homeschool field trip is one of the dads, who also happens to be a Yakama and works for the Yakama Nation Fisheries. Here's a link to a picture of him tracking the salmon as they return upstream.

Kristin said, on 10/19/2010 12:43:00 PM

Chicklegirl - That is so interesting. Electronic tracking! of course! Can I get that for my children? What a great way to check it out - with an expert!

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Even though I haven’t yet read any of the books on my list for Sylvia’s Biodiversity Challenge, my Bookman and I set out on a bike ride to Lake Harriet in Minneapolis to the bird sanctuary to see what we could see in order to fulfill the field trip portion of the challenge.

The morning was in the 70s (F) but the relative humidity was high. One of the nice things about biking even in high humidity is that while you move you make your own wind that keeps you cooler. As soon as we dismounted our trusty bicycles to lock them up we both broke out into a sweat.

We walked into the bird sanctuary and immediately felt like we were miles away:

We saw no birds, but we heard them. And we made a blood donation to the local mosquito population. With all the rain we’ve been having lately the mosquitoes were thick so we didn’t stay here long.

When we emerged we went to the peace garden right next to the mosquito bird sanctuary and took in the biodiversity that the garden had to offer like this little chipmunk:

And this red admiral butterfly:

We also saw lots of beautiful perennials and a blue spruce tree that we wish we had a shrinking ray gun so we could take it home and fit it in our backyard. Across the street from the peace garden is a rose garden where we saw lots of roses and these projectile vomiting turtles as Bookman labeled them:

We thought we had had enough biodiversity for one day but Nature wasn’t done with us yet.

On our way home we stopped to look out over Lake Harriet and watch the sailboats. When Bookman was snapping a photo of himself, look what came up out of the water behind him:

Here’s the monster close up:

The person in the canoe had better look out, s/he would probably make a tasty snack!

We made it home without any further incident.

Now all I need to do is read the books I listed for the challenge.

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By: Kristin, on 6/18/2010
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You never know who you might meet on a walk on the pier.  There are also a lot of beautiful jellyfish and sea stars in the water when you peer over the dock.  This is Pier 66. You can walk around the boats moored there. Right before you walk down there is a port office that loans life jackets for little ones that might be too tipsy looking into the water. 

 

"My soul is full of longing for the secrets of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me..." ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

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Sally said, on 6/21/2010 8:37:00 AM

What a great site! If you are interested in turning this site into a book I would love to help - www.booksfromblogs.com along with 20% off to any of your followers.

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By: Kristin, on 6/8/2010
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Sometimes you don't need to travel far or think too hard to find something fun to do with your kids.  This doesn't cost anything upfront but the selection of goods can be tempting, especially as camping/hiking season approaches.  I love the outdoors, especially when there is no concrete involved, but sometimes you want to be inside and still get excited for when the weather is better for outside.  REI is a great store, and they aren't even paying me to say this.  This is their downtown flagship store, they have a great play area upstairs for kids, a hiking path to try out new boots, animal tracks to follow on the main level, glass elevators, ice pick door handles, tents and the works to check out. Oh and around this time of year they start handing out adventure passports where you can journal your hikes...it is really really cool, we participated last year and it was a fun addition to our hiking packs. (if you don't have a store near you, download it online here.)

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Diane L said, on 6/9/2010 9:40:00 AM

REI is exceptional - and I've never encountered another sporting goods store that has as much entertainment of offer in addition to goods.

The Trainas said, on 6/11/2010 11:53:00 PM

i miss you!!!

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By: Kristin, on 5/4/2010
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So a great way to show people around your city, is make sure they try some fun restaurants. This is my brother-in-law hiding behind his cute baby. I can't say I blame him...many fear the blog post, but I had to include him because the sushi was his idea.  He had never tried it before and I must say he was very brave and ate everything.  It was a really fun field trip, with lots of chopsticks and laughing, what happens when you add too much Wasabi?

 

Thanks to the cute shop owner who rigged up a little help for my niece, she had a great first experience with these utensils.  I found instructions how to make these here.  If you want to eat some yummy sushi or teriyaki in Seattle go to Ichiro.

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Diane said, on 5/5/2010 6:53:00 AM

I still remember when we went for sushi together. We still love sushi, and believe it or not, have found some good places to get it here in Utah.

Nicole said, on 5/5/2010 12:18:00 PM

Funny you should post this now; M was just asking yesterday if we could go back to "Aunt Kristin's restaurant and eat with those knife-sticks again?"

Joanna said, on 5/5/2010 7:09:00 PM

That is so cute. I totally want to make some cool chopsticks too!! cute little model - looks like fun!

ade said, on 5/5/2010 9:10:00 PM

man your niece really knows how to hold those sticks...remember when you made sushi with my boys?? Best Aunt ever ...hands down!!!

Jamie said, on 5/6/2010 10:00:00 AM

Aw - what a cutie!! (And no I'm not talking about Danny...) I've seen those plastic ones you can buy and wanted some, but it would be cheaper to make them!

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By: Kristin, on 4/23/2010
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So in Seattle the Pacific Science Center has the coolest IMAX movies. (Oh and they are free with certain memberships!)  They are usually about 45 minutes long.  We recently saw Hubble 3-D and I cannot rave enough about this film. I promise it's not just because Leo DiCaprio is the voice-over.  First my boys loved it, it shows all kinds of cool things about space exploration, Astronaut training, how to make a floating taco, what life is like in space and a pretty cool, intense mission to fix the Hubble telescope.

I loved it for the spectacularly beautiful photos from the Hubble, galaxies far, far away, star nurseries, I felt in awe of Our Creator.  I actually was very moved by it and learned a lot.  I highly recommend this as a rainy day outing and it's one your husband will like too! Plus who doesn't look great in those 3-D glasses?

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Joanna said, on 4/23/2010 11:26:00 AM

Love the glasses! I will have to look into if that movie is playing here.

Kami's Khlopchyk said, on 4/23/2010 2:37:00 PM

My kids would love that IMAX, I'll have to watch for it here. We get them rotating through 2 at a time.

Traci said, on 4/23/2010 4:09:00 PM

3-D is definitely the way of the future. I will keep my eye open for that one. My kids LOVE 3-D, well mostly, sometimes Eliza is a bit freaked out. Take them to see "How to Train Your Dragon" ADORABLE!!!

Diane said, on 4/23/2010 8:50:00 PM

We usually had a family membership to the Pacific Science Center while the kids were young - worth every penny. I love that place. Plus it's a great place to take visitors.

aubrey said, on 4/26/2010 10:06:00 PM

oh! i love this idea. short imax films {short being the key word} about science and nature. i don't know why i've never thought about this..i'm going to do this with my kids the next chance i have!

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By: Jarrett J. Krosoczka, on 10/8/2008
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This isn't so much a field trip, as I was invited out by the Adam Memorial Library in Latrobe, PA - but I would say that it turned into one. Because little did I know - I was headed to the hometown of Mr. Rodgers. The library has an impressive collection of old Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood merchandise from the 1960's and 1970's and another display of Mr. Rodgers' childhood puppets and high school yearbook. Tarah the librarian was nice enough to even drive me to Mr. Rodgers' original neighborhood and I saw his childhood home. Someone else live there now. How odd must that be?

Here are a few of the things that I saw.

Old merchandise:

And old possesions of Mr. Rodgers that was donated by his family.

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