morgana sent pictures of the nathan hale homestead today. nathan hale is connecticut's state hero, and his family homestead was deeded into connecticut landmarks in the 1940's. the above building was the second to be built on the property in 1776. nathan's father was a livestock farmer with six sons out of eight serving in the patriot army. three of those sons died of war wounds, and nathan was hanged at age 21 by the british as a spy in september of 1776. the widows and children moved in with their in-laws so that there were quite a few people living in the house. the interior is painted in historic colors that were found from a present day paint analysis, and it is furnished with hale family pieces and period antiques that were based on the hale family inventories.
nana and nonno walking around the yard.
the old vegetable garden.
the place where they had lunch after visiting the homestead.
the whole crew.
a picture of the statue of nathan hale that stands in DC, which we saw the summer before last. you can see it here.
whitie says "good-night!"
You won't believe it, but Miriam's dictation passages right now are about Nathan Hale!! She will have to take a look at these pictures.
ReplyDeleteAnd she'll like seeing his statue . . I have a link to it above . . Could you tell me where you are getting the Miriam's dictation passages about Nathan Hale from?
DeleteIt's part from this book. It starts with number 2.
DeleteThank you Eva! The Speller mentions that there is a statue of Hale in City Hall Park. We're downtown once a week now for Chanda's modern dance class. We'll have to stop by next Monday and take a picture of the statue (NYC has so many . . ). It'll be interesting to see another artist's interpretation.
DeleteOh, yes, do please. That will be even more interesting for Miriam. I hope it is still there.
DeleteOnly 21.... I guess I'll have to study a bit here - never heard of him, but it sounds like a story worth knowing. And then I happened to read about your Tour-de-DC. Really enjoyed it!
ReplyDeleteYes, DC was fun :) And we had such beautiful weather for it.
DeleteDC in humidity is pretty bad. I was there in the winter, a bit cold for walking around so much.
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