“Enter as a hundred cares vanish. Laugh as the great river expands.” Couplet vertically inscribed at the entrance of the Chinese garden’s tea house. Liu Fang Yuan, or The Garden of Flowing Fragrance, is an incredible 15-acre garden created in the traditional style of scholar gardens from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) in Suzhou, China. This…
Huntington Library’s Chinese Garden: A Tour of California’s Best Hidden Botanical and Architectural Masterpiece
Sending Kids Off to College? 10 Tips to Help Prepare Your Freshmen for the World Ahead of Them
Just like the family of ducks in Robert McCloskey’s children’s classic “Make Way for Ducklings,” as parents, we “make way” for our children. Yet the inevitable day will come when it’s time for our kids to graduate high school, head off to college, or move out on their own, and as parents, we’re left wondering:…
Top Pastry Chef Ebow Dadzie on How Grandma’s Lessons Guided His Journey to Success
In the kitchen of a small, two-bedroom Brooklyn apartment, a young Ebow Dadzie watched his grandmother cook. At times, he was instructed to pass a spice or stir a pot, and sometimes he was taught an entire recipe. Usually, he just observed as Dorothy Mitchell prepared dinner for her family. No matter what he was…
Play and Learn in Tandem: The Unexpected Benefits of Allowing Your Kids to Enjoy Their Summer Vacations
Summertime—the dream of every school-age child, and to be honest, even some adults still to this day. It is often a time of fond memories, fun, vacations, warm weather, and relaxation. As children, it was a time when we were finally able to, in our minds, “take a break” after a long year of learning….
Reasons Why the Written Word Still Packs the Biggest Punch
Parents may be challenged by their child’s homework frustration—“Why do I have to do these writing assignments? I don’t like to write! I’ll never be a writer, so why do I need to learn this?” How can we answer that? Talking about examples of how writing has always helped us, both long ago and today,…
Winnowed by the Hardships of His Youth, This Top Ad Executive is Now an Advocate for Keeping Kids in School
Shelley Stewart was 6 years old when he watched his alcoholic father, Huell Jerome Sr., kill his mother, Mattie C., at their Rosedale home in Alabama. This was back in 1939, and there was never an investigation. Shelley ran away shortly after and became homeless. A family took him in to live in their basement,…
How Robert E. Lee and Booker T. Washington Became Educators Dedicated to Rebuilding a War-Torn America
If we slip back in time to the late 1860s, we find an America torn apart by war and suffering. In the spring of 1865, the North had defeated the Southern Confederacy. Less than a week after Confederate forces surrendered at Appomattox, Abraham Lincoln, whose policies might have changed the course of American history following…
A Ride to Rival Paul Revere: Meet the Father and Daughter Duo Who Aided America’s Victory in the Revolutionary War
In the early years of the American Revolution, after the British evacuated Boston and took control of New York, the area encompassing historical Westchester and Dutchess counties in lower New York Colony became a uniquely dangerous zone, particularly for residents. The little region wedged between Long Island Sound and the Hudson River, and farther to…
Protected by Providence: Did You Know Young George Washington Once Survived a Rain of Bullets Unscathed?
July 18, 2022
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Every schoolchild once knew the story by heart: how a beleaguered George Washington became one of the sole surviving officers in a massacre that killed most of his army, but left him unscathed. How he took command when his general fell, rallied his troops as two horses were shot out from under him, and walked…
The 19th-Century Woman Who Simplified Our Shopping Trips By Inventing the Paper Grocery Bag
If you’ve ever carried your groceries home in a paper bag, you can thank Margaret E. Knight. It is a name that you have almost certainly never heard of, associated with an invention that seems too obvious to notice. But the brown paper bag is one of many useful modern conveniences that, trivial in hindsight,…
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