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A link to my blog post about the children I met and taught at this Biddle mansion is here.
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on 8/2/2015
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In the Philadelphia Inquirer today I'm thinking about serenity—how we need it, where we find it—at Andalusia, along the Delaware River.
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A link to my blog post about the children I met and taught at this Biddle mansion is here.
By: Beth Kephart ,
on 7/22/2015
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Indeed, it was hot. Indeed there was more water percolating up from our own skin than flowing past in the Delaware River beyond. But for three hours yesterday afternoon, at the gorgeous historic Biddle estate, Andalusia, I had the great pleasure of working with the young environmentalists and active citizens of the Fairmount Water Works' Project Flow as well as the teens of the Texas Aqua Squad.
Together we explored the grounds, hunted for magic, metaphor, and simile, collected turkey feathers, studied a recreated grapery, discovered portraits of George Washington and Napoleon Bonaparte, searched for colors, listened to the 1886 words of Biddle's Aunt Kitty, pondered departures and returns, and interviewed one another.
To those who spoke as shadows, the color red, the everything of green, an albino snake, and so much more, to those who listened to their partners so well that they could tell their stories for them, to those who said I can't and then discovered I can, thank you.
Let's be weird together. Always.
(With thanks to Ellen Schultz and Connie Griffith Houchins.)
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By: Beth Kephart ,
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A link to the story is here.
A link to my blog post about the children I met and taught at this Biddle mansion is here.
By: Beth Kephart ,
on 7/22/2015
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Together we explored the grounds, hunted for magic, metaphor, and simile, collected turkey feathers, studied a recreated grapery, discovered portraits of George Washington and Napoleon Bonaparte, searched for colors, listened to the 1886 words of Biddle's Aunt Kitty, pondered departures and returns, and interviewed one another.
To those who spoke as shadows, the color red, the everything of green, an albino snake, and so much more, to those who listened to their partners so well that they could tell their stories for them, to those who said I can't and then discovered I can, thank you.
Let's be weird together. Always.
(With thanks to Ellen Schultz and Connie Griffith Houchins.)
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