Waverly Farm’s 375 acres were part of a 5,000-acre land grant to Alexander Ross, a Scottish-Irish Quaker, who built the original part of the stone house in 1734 using limestone found on the farmland. Hopewell Meeting House, also a part of the grant, was built in 1736. It is the oldest church west of […]
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Recently Polly #3, Polly #14, and Polly #32 went shopping at the Mall of America(MOA) in Bloomington, Minnesota. The MOA’s claim to fame is that it’s the second largest mall in North America and the largest mall in the United States. The West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Canada reigns supreme in the category of mammoth […]
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After our conference let out for the afternoon, Candee’s friend Anne picked us up from our hotel for a tour of Minneapolis. We walked around the Minneapolis sculpture garden and saw the Spoon Bridge (very cool!), viewed the city from the observation deck at Forshay Tower, and saw the bronze statue that captures Mary Richard’s […]
K.W. and G.W. took me on a field trip during our week of Spring Break. We went to Berkeley Springs to the “petting farm”. I met two wonderful people there. They were the owners of the farm. They were kind to me and even took a picture with me. These wonderful people were K.W. and […]
Grace and Polly coloring eggs Kelsey and Grace kept telling me that we were going to color Easter eggs but I didn’t know what they meant. I kept waiting and really thought that we just wouldn’t have time for it. But tonight they surprised me! We colored eggs together. Grace let me put the eggs […]
Polly was watching Kelsey and Grace ride the mower with their Dad and she really wanted to take a turn. She asked Kelsey if she would take her a ride on the mower so Kelsey did. Polly even got to drive it. She had so much fun on the little one that she asked Grace […]
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Boy was it a long ride! We started toward Charleston, WV (the capital) around 5:00 p.m. and did not arrive there until the next day. We stopped and stayed at some friend’s house for the night. We had to get up early the next morning to get to the capital building on time. Even though […]
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