PENINSULA MIX
Because of the ongoing curiosity about how Peninsula got its name, readers might find helpful this antique map which appears in A Photo Album of Ohio’s Canal Era, which is available at Peninsula Library.
This shows how the Ohio Canal cut through the original peninsula. . . .
Here are some gift ideas for the students on your Christmas list. (I wish someone had given any one of these to me when I was a student.) Mnemonic, (or memory hooks) is the subject of Thirty Days Has September (Cool Ways to Remember Stuff). Here are a few examples:
HOMES = the Great Lakes – Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior. .
Never eat slimy worms = helps to remember the points of a compass.
Roy G. Biv = colors of the rainbow, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.
“My very educated mother just served us noodles” – gives a clue to the planets in the order of their distance from the sun. (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Neptune. (It used to end with nine pizzas but was trimmed after Pluto was dropped as a planet). . . .
How to distinguish between longitude and latitude? Remember that north, south and longitude all have “o” as their second letter.
I sure do wish I had a book like this when I was a student. I got mine at the Learned Owl in Hudson, $9.99.
Anyone interested in working on an independent study of charter forms of government in other communities and comparing them with our village? If you are interested in studying the pros and cons of local government please call me at 330-657-2284.
| Lily Fleder |