Rural intentional communities withdraw from mainstream urban space, rejecting its materialism and consumption. In creating their own places in the countryside, they produce new spaces of rurality. Constructions of rurality by intentional communities can be perceived as "out of place" by local populations. This article draws on a wider…

A Quest is a treasure hunt-style poem in which the writers lead the visitor to special places on the property. The poems have movement clues to take the visitor from place to place and educational clues that teach about aspects of each property. The writing experience allows students to research unique features of a local property, demonstrate…

Service-learning projects help students make connections to their community and help them to think about civic participation. The projects can range from very simple short-term philanthropy to very complex direct involvement by the students across multiple years. Students learn both social problem-solving skills and academic knowledge through…

This annotated bibliography of selected sources introduces the novice genealogy researcher to the basic tools of this intriguing and popular pastime. With a focus on sources from and about Ireland, the bibliography presents print and electronic sources that will assist in researching family history as well as offer reviews of recent electronic…

This document was intended for use as a script for a slide show depicting historic images of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It may also function as an independent narrative history of the location. The history of the city from 1802 to the 1990s is presented. Descriptions of the 79 slides are included. (MM)

The Cleveland (Ohio) Board of Education opened the Cleveland City Normal School in the fall of 1874 to provide a teacher corps for the public schools that was prepared to meet the unique needs of the rapidly growing metropolitan area. Increased Ohio teacher certification requirements prompted the school board and Western Reserve University to…

This document discusses the life celebrations of Arab American immigrants to Cleveland from the late 1870s. Assembled from what is largely an oral tradition of family history, the booklet describes the home life, weddings, and final partings when elderly relatives returned to the homeland or died in the United States. The economic situation and…

This document consists of a chronology of historic events. There is no accompanying text. Divided into four sections, the outline succinctly sketches the development of printing and publishing in Alabama in the nineteenth century. The opening section, which lists early publications and their dates of first appearance, features newspapers, legal…

Samuel de Champlain's adventures and observations of the Lake Champlain, New York, region are recounted. (DE)

This magazine offers interviews, short stories and articles with a general focus on childhood in Appalachia. Two interviews include: "Creative Response to Life-Pauline Cheek," by Jane Harris Woodside, and "Insights and Experience: A Talk with Eliot Wigginton," by Pauline Binkley Cheek. Short stories include: "Thief in the…

Over 50 books, films, maps, and other audiovisual materials produced between 1972 and 1983 are described in this annotated list of instructional media. Designed for students ranging from grade 4 to grade 8, the materials focus primarily on the study of North Carolina. However, some are more general, such as books about Indians in southeastern…

The Sydney Public Library began as the Australian Subscription Library and Reading Room which opened in Sydney on December 1, 1827, with 1,000 volumes. The Municipal Council of Sydney took possession of the library in 1909. The library evolved from a closed access, fixed shelf position library to an open access system in 1910. A complete…

This social studies achievement test for grade 3 contains 50 multiple choice questions in 3 parts. Part 1 covers communities in Canada today, while part 3 focuses on knowledge about special communities in Alberta (Canada). Part 2 covers the lifestyles of the early settlers. The questions require knowledge of map reading, manufacturing, food…

Intended to provide the reader with information concerning the development and early heritage of a secondary vocational agriculture program, this historical account of the development of an Ohio vocational agriculture program is intended also to be useful as a prototype for other communities who wish to make a similar report of their programs.…

The idea of public library film circuits was first proposed by the Carnegie Corporation in 1947. In 1948, one of two three-year grants was given to the Missouri State Library for the development of a statewide film circuit. Film packages of four to nine films were circulated among eleven libraries. Early conflicts with the University of Missouri's…