Adventures at Wilder Farm

Lita just finished her last couple of classroom visits for this school year and we’re heading to England tomorrow! I was unloading pictures off the digital camera and found these images from our November 2003 trip to England.

That trip was to the Cotswolds and then up to North Yorkshire. We had a lot of rain but also some beautiful, moody weather. We were also in England about 18 months ago. I remember lots of miles of hiking (I think we did 100 miles in 10 days) and also lots of scones and clotted cream on that trip! This time we’ll be near London for a few days of research for a book, and then we head up to the Lake District.

When we get back, Pennies for Elephants will be released! Lita’s doing a talk and book signing event at our local Peterborough Toadstool Bookshop on June 13th at 2pm, so if you’re in the area, please come — we’ll bring some pictures of England too!

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We just put the finishing touches on a mini website for Pennies for Elephants.

One of the main characters in the story is a little newsboy so we’ve put together some great Lewis Hine photographs of newsboys (and newsgirls). Luckily these images are all in the public domain and available through Flickr — really amazing photographs.

The research section includes several pages of headlines and pictures from the Boston Post Newspaper. Pennies for Elephants is based on true events that occurred in 1914. The Boston Post covered the story from March to June, with several articles and pictures every day. We captured these images (back in 2007 when Lita was researching the story) by taking digital pictures of the screen of the microfilm reader — they look better than I expected!

And we’ve included some fun old pictures of Fenway Park and the Boston Red Sox in 1912. The guy on the top-left is Smoky Joe Wood who won 34 games for Boston in 1912, and had 3 wins in the World Series (which Boston won against the old New York Giants).

We’re expecting the first shipment of Pennies for Elephants to arrive this week at the New Hampshire Educational Media Association Conference (NHEMA) where Lita is giving the luncheon keynote on Friday.

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