Monthly Archives: October 2019
ANNIVERSARY SHARE: DISNEYLAND’S HAUNTED MANSION
The first time I visited the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland, a cockatoo (obviously someone’s lost pet) swooped down and took up residence on the arm of the guy in front of us. It was being harassed by the local crow population and must have thought he’d make a good bodyguard. I think he turned it […]
HISTORY SHARE: WINTER FOOD STORAGE
Getting in enough food for winter was quite a challenge before safe and reliable methods of preserving it came along. And some of the ones we know today are of quite recent invention. https://www.thekitchn.com/breakthroughs-in-food-science-canning-218083
HISTORY SHARE: VICTORIAN MUGSHOTS – OF KIDS!
Like the girl above, most of the young criminals in this Victorian rogue’s gallery stole out of desperation. Usually food or clothing. The boy above, however, was just a middle-class kid out for a bit of fun. Ask your own kids if they think there’s any difference in their bearing, or that of others on […]
EYEWITNESS HISTORY SHARE: THE WW II BOMBING OF CHESSINGTON ZOO
My father took me to Chessington Zoo when I was about eleven. A lovely day out. (Other than the getting lost en route bit, which nearly always happened when we went up to London.) https://worldwarzoogardener1939.wordpress.com/2015/10/02/chessington-zoo-blitzed-2-october-1940-eyewitness-accounts/
HISTORY SHARE: CHAINED LIBRARIES
October is Library month! Encourage your kids to visit yours. Where the books presumably aren’t chained up like in this one. http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180706-the-ancient-library-where-the-books-are-under-lock-and-key
