in between travels and fun summer reading, we're continuing with evangeline . .
though longfellow understandably simplified the conflict for his poem, the events and characters have spurred further study and chanda and i have been been back and forth to wikipedia reading about the acadians and the french and indian war. all the european settlers lived with a constant fear of attack and choosing a side could have a life or death outcome. reading about it all, you feel for the native peoples, and you feel for the european farmers.
tsamaret and moriah came over today. it was fun to see them. they're in the city more this summer. usually they spend the summer on their farm in pennsylvania.
morgana and chanda took them to the water park after playing at home.
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