I love your layouts and agree with you about visiting and learning. I loved the Freedom Trail (walked it myself when I was in Boston to a conference a few years ago). I'd studied it via the internet. . . got scared though when I got to the North Church it was near dark and I was afraid I could not get back before dark. When I got to the USS Constitution, I followed some other people and got a boat ride through the harbor back to my hotel. That was a bonus.
When we do our layouts, we learn even more studying the pictures and reliving the history. Have a great day!
My dear Patty, as I was reading your description, I though we all must know our country and history, what a great thing you have done going to New England!! I love shaped pictures, the beautiful colors, the memorabilia ans the composition! Guess what?? A FAV!!!!
What a wonderful story!! Bet your vacation was and awesome one!! Nothing better than visiting historical sites!! Always so interesting! Your photo are beautiful, love the masking, punch work, the beautiful bow and burlap tea bag!
This is so cool! It is great that you got to go and see these historic places after learning about them (no better way, right?). I love all your awesome pics and cute little teabag. fave
I love this layout Patty! Great design and photo. I live about 1/2 hour out of Boston so if you ever get back to this neck of the woods let me know, I'd love to meet for tea! Love the paper you chose and cutting the photos into a hexagon shape is pure genius! fave
Fabulous work Patty!!!!! I love how you cut the photos into the hexagon shapes & the burlap tea bag is perfect! I agree.... there's nothing better than seeing those places & sights to really make the history come alive!! Great design!!!
Great trip - I like to see, touch, feel, smell, etc. too - nothing brings history more to life than being there, even if it's after the fact! Creative and informative LO.
Absolutely WONDERFUL and AMAZING trip, Patty! WOOHOO!!!!! I love how you scrapped your awesome photos! Your design and the hexagon shaped photos look so beautiful here!
Reading about a country's history in a textbook is a good thing. For me, seeing artifacts, touching buildings and reading documents has a way of bringing history to life. For twenty five years, I taught hundreds of children about the Pilgrims, Plymouth Rock, The Constitution of the United States, The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, the patriotism and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock and George Washington. I taught my students about the Declaration of Independence, our Constitution and the amazing history of our great country. When I retired in 2009, I wanted to see the places that mean so much to us as Americans and that I had spoken of so many times in my classroom. I wanted to walk along the same places where our forefathers had journeyed and see some of the sights that they saw. In some tangible way, I yearned to experience the beginnings of our nation and soak in the history. In the fall, following my retirement (when I normally would have been in the classroom, teaching about these great places and people of American history), my husband and I took a trip to New England. We went to Boston and saw the graves of many patriots, the site of the Boston Massacre and then to Concord and Lexington, to see where a band of normal, everyday farmers fired the "shot heard 'round the world", as Ralph Waldo Emmerson wrote. It was then, and only then, that the wonderful stories from history books truly came alive to me.
Products Used:
HEIDI SWAPP No Limits Collection paper MARTHA STEWART Punch Around the Page, Lattice MAYA ROAD Hexagons Chipboard Set Kraft Journaling Tag, Black Star Bottlecap Vintage Linen Burlap Treasure Bags MAY ARTS Ribbon TATTERED ANGELS Glimmer Mist, Huckleberry Mask, ZIG Writer, Pure Red Writer, Black
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