Author: margyburnsknight

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3205724/How-65-countries-erected-security-walls-borders.html

Thanks to all the Winthrop families who participated in the Discover Your World scavenger hunt with the original illustrations from Talking Walls. The families looked for, talked about and answered questions about 30 items in the illustrations .

Thanks to all the teachers who attended my workshop at the Maine Social Studies Conference. We talked  a lot about memorials and why people continue to leave items at the WALL in DC. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/the-things-they-left-selections-from-30-years-of-objects-at-the-vietnam-wall/2015/03/02/33226ba8-b910-11e4-aa05-1ce812b3fdd2_story.html

One teacher told us that  when she visits her grandfather’s  tombstone she leaves a penny . Here is  a story about that tradition http://www.snopes.com/military/coins.asp