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From: Ginny Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 17:09:00 -600
Thanks, Ruth and Robin, for such interesting contributions to CCBC-NET. My goodness, from gooseberries to gandy dancers - all in a few hours!
Unrelated trivia for Wisconsin and Minnesota neighbors: there's a new bicycle trail in Burnett County called the Gandy Dancer Trail
(between Webster and Danbury). It follows a former train track.
Even though this is the last day "scheduled" for discussing The Well and other books by Mildred Taylor, please continue to make comments about these and other books from past months whenever you read them, re-read them, and gain insights into them based on teaching them or using them in other ways with young readers. Just because there is a CCBC-NET discussion "schedule" does not mean that your comments on other books are unwelcome. Quite the contrary.
Sorry about the recent postings to all that should have been sent only to one person. Everyone is learning "the system," as it were. We understand... Thanks, Chris, for sending everyone a list of the commands once again. This helps...
Who has read The Midwife's Apprentice? What are your first impressions? (If you don't have access to this book yet, have you read Catherine, Called Birdy also written by Karen Cushman? Comments?) Cheers! Ginny
******************************************************************** Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education University of Wisconsin - Madison
On this last day to talk about the Logan family i want to suggest "Gandy Dancers" which I saw on Public Television in Sept. Gandy dancers are the men who kept the railroad ties straight after the trains had passed and they also made necessaty repairs. A group of elderly Black men demonstr ated the songs and chants along with their work and in informal interviews discussed the status,conditions and meaning of railroad workers in the black community at about the time when David Logan was supporting his family by working on the railroad. These men spoke with such good humor, sang with such style and grace, and had the dignity which MIldred Taylor has written into the character of David Logan as the father of a fine family. It's impossible to predict local tv listings! So keep your eyes out for "Gandy Dancers".
Ruth Heespelink, Curriculum Resources Librarian and children's literature instructor at Wheelock College, Boston, Mass.
Received on Tue 31 Oct 1995 05:09:00 PM CST
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 17:09:00 -600
Thanks, Ruth and Robin, for such interesting contributions to CCBC-NET. My goodness, from gooseberries to gandy dancers - all in a few hours!
Unrelated trivia for Wisconsin and Minnesota neighbors: there's a new bicycle trail in Burnett County called the Gandy Dancer Trail
(between Webster and Danbury). It follows a former train track.
Even though this is the last day "scheduled" for discussing The Well and other books by Mildred Taylor, please continue to make comments about these and other books from past months whenever you read them, re-read them, and gain insights into them based on teaching them or using them in other ways with young readers. Just because there is a CCBC-NET discussion "schedule" does not mean that your comments on other books are unwelcome. Quite the contrary.
Sorry about the recent postings to all that should have been sent only to one person. Everyone is learning "the system," as it were. We understand... Thanks, Chris, for sending everyone a list of the commands once again. This helps...
Who has read The Midwife's Apprentice? What are your first impressions? (If you don't have access to this book yet, have you read Catherine, Called Birdy also written by Karen Cushman? Comments?) Cheers! Ginny
******************************************************************** Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education University of Wisconsin - Madison
On this last day to talk about the Logan family i want to suggest "Gandy Dancers" which I saw on Public Television in Sept. Gandy dancers are the men who kept the railroad ties straight after the trains had passed and they also made necessaty repairs. A group of elderly Black men demonstr ated the songs and chants along with their work and in informal interviews discussed the status,conditions and meaning of railroad workers in the black community at about the time when David Logan was supporting his family by working on the railroad. These men spoke with such good humor, sang with such style and grace, and had the dignity which MIldred Taylor has written into the character of David Logan as the father of a fine family. It's impossible to predict local tv listings! So keep your eyes out for "Gandy Dancers".
Ruth Heespelink, Curriculum Resources Librarian and children's literature instructor at Wheelock College, Boston, Mass.
Received on Tue 31 Oct 1995 05:09:00 PM CST
