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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The web site is lovely! I’m so excited for you. And I can’t wait for June!
Hi Tricia! Thanks for taking a look at the website. We’ve actually received two copies of PENNIES and we couldn’t be happier with the way it looks. June has always seemed so far away, but it’s almost here!
Love the story. Had to tell my son in LA about it as he is still a Red Sox/Fenway fan. I will send him the site. You were great at the conference.
Thanks Helen!
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