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pen4hire on March 3rd, 2010

The Great American Road Trip

Destination: New Hampshire
Book: The Good, Good Pig:The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood, by Sy Montgomery.
Where would we be without librarians? While New England teems with good writing, going back to colonial days, I wanted something contemporary for our visit to New Hampshire.  Susan Reiner, a reader who lives in that [...]

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pen4hire on February 24th, 2010

The Great American Road Trip
Destination: Maine
Book: The Lobster Chronicles: Life on a Very Small Island by Linda Greenlaw
And don’t forget your musical accompaniment over at Music Road, where Kerry Dexter will introduce you to a Maine fiddler and a list of “storytellers in song” that hail from Maine.

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pen4hire on February 23rd, 2010

Travel Tuesday
Destination: Stockholm, Sweden, The Vasa Museum

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pen4hire on February 22nd, 2010

Destination: Shimla, India
Book:  Shimla – A British Himalayan Town, by Sumit Vashisht
A Guest post by Dr. Jessie Voigts

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pen4hire on August 25th, 2009

Destination: Africa
Children’s Book: My African Bedtime Rhymes by Brettell Hone, illustrated by Ginger Nielson
Guest Author: Jessie Voigts
Jessie is our once-a-month contributor. In this episode she tells us the backstory of an interview she did on Wandering Educators with her daughter Lillie joining  in the questioning. Thanks for bring us this, Jessie.
I am happy to [...]

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pen4hire on June 30th, 2009

Dr. Jessie Voights of WanderingEducators.com talks about adapting to foreign culture and interviews author Mark McCrum.

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