Saturday, December 23, 2023

Update before Christmas 2023

Apah's birthday 


John loves countryballs and making flag maps

A guest speaker at my honors class talking about making cosplay, including John's character from final fantasy
David's Halloween pumpkin 


John's birthday



David handing out Halloween candy

At the Museum to see our exhibit
Juliet, with a student's exhibit and mine in the background 
Birbs
Revised Ninety Six presentation


Our students are on the left


Talk after firing the cannon

Thanksgiving
We don't usually put up Halloween decorations, so here is a first go
Arlene and David playing a shoot 'em up
The boys and I play "Rise of Nations" together. Go Philippines!


At Lander's tree lighting 


Posters made by one of my public history courses
Honors studnets playing Smash Ultimate on the last day of class. It was on popular culture so I wanted to include game culture

At Lander concert
Found the Filipino ball!
John's recreation of the Cold War using country balls
Vampire Penguin



I was part of a talk on the Charleston Tea Party

An award I received from the Daughters of the American Revolution for my part in the Museum exhibit


Group photo of the winners--a student who helped with the exhibit and the Museum person behind the exhibit




 



Sunday, October 15, 2023

October 2023 Update

I gave a talk on the Loyalist escape artist David Fanning to the Sons of the American Revolution meeting

I'm on Lander University's food insecurity committee so I went to the opening of the Piedmont Tech Foodbank, which is in part based on ours
Amah's birthday
Enjoying time at Pelican's shaved ice
Robert's retirement party 
Celebrated Dr. Vernon Burton
Arlene wins a game of Smash Ultimate!
Trip to Carowinds!All three boys rode the Fury 325




The Museum hosted an exhibit on the American Revolution. Some of my dioarams were included. Here is one of Ninety Six jail and colonial farms (different scales)
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My diorama of the assault on Redoubt 10 during the Yorktown Campaign. 
Clothes made by one of our students displayed on dolls. 
Another Lander student portraying Phillis Wheatley
Greenville Zoo!




Liberty Bridge and surrounding park 








Corn Maze at Connie Maxwell


 John on a zip line