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Hi, Kids! toGaFthharaTCsnuiieerdnnTiilahBbgrtlmdadaSraioihAoislcaohrknutaioflldlpessmesilsturonGwoe.itmwaaaaocteieanlla“noe-eitassanAtdncrlcob“gyrnlhrhaWeoidicieoehpennusaaogurogdietrnGnlrntshmdndteodeatpeevielthornmesriofsWltreeeteovluto.heguasnpeonreei.ea―tlWa.e”esf,rt t.tWmiihAhawelalrleiedaAesiivolgtigdselrfnLhGrfneldrgboditoiuwaip,fwrc”ulsibilhiantcwaondiie,dhCersnhgoirtdonwwehmtttutysGnhhhohnoaearbueefatureitoterritnsrcuyseeithdhhnsgoo’odsystoeehutfomtehrtotinwatnceheueawniepenten.tdttheagihlvtfboacnaoeheoportcfntreilaeodnehcwisosssg.rgectattseeroaotchRetaorleanaeLtkssnrlersiaoltfneewwbdaoaogadgflawiatpCnothulthtd,lkononahahevssuibneleeq,knieik“ounnttLCeeftoraoouywtwtSrne.hencoesCeou,csottyuhisnottnersym”. Until next time, Charleston, South Carolina Savannah, Georgia— Elisa.rolle - Own work The Low Country is a 200-mile stretch of land • The lands are also filled with broad, flat • Many animals in this ecosystem are on the coasts of South Carolina and Georgia. sections of marsh grass. threatened or endangered due to diminishing Have you seen silvery hair-like Spanish Moss • The Low Country has a subtropical, mild and habitat along the barrier island coastline and in dripping from live oak trees? If you have, you very humid climate. longleaf pine forests. These species include the were probably in this region. This part of the • Charleston, South Carolina, and Savannah, bald eagle, loggerhead sea turtle, West Indian country is full of history and natural beauty. Georgia, are two large and top-rated tourist manatee, shortnose sturgeon, American wood • The land is just above or at sea level; thus, destinations and old cities located in the Low stork, North Atlantic right whale and frosted the reason is it called low. These lands are low- Country. flatwoods salamander. lying areas that easily flood, filled with marshes • These southeastern shores are in the • The region’s culture has Southern, Native and swamps. migration route for many birds and insects, such American, European, Caribbean and African • The dark marsh soil along the coast does as the monarch butterfly and swallow-tailed kite. roots. flood at high tide. When the tide recedes, the These weary travelers fly a long way and use • The Low Country region’s most popular wetland leaves behind a musky, slightly salty the Low Country as a stopping point and resting coastal dish is called a low country boil. To smell. place on their long route. make it, cooks take fresh shellfish, like clams or • Water is everywhere in the Low Country. • Some rare living things that are found in few crab, caught on any given day, dump the catch From the bordering Atlantic Ocean to tidal other areas inhabit these wetlands, such as the in a giant pot with some vegetables and sausage marshes, rivers and estuaries, water is the Venus Flytrap, a carnivorous plant that feeds on and enjoy good eating. common factor. insects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina_Lowcountry • https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/ • https://charlestonmag.com/features/rare_creatures 2 Kidsville News! www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals June 2020

This Page Brought To You By: Braddock’s Point Cemetery, a Gullah Geechee sea island cemetery on Hilton Head Island— DBL07.co Own work The Gullah heritage remains today in the skilled hands of the sweetgrass A Fourth of July celebration (July 4, 1939). St. basket weavers who create intricate designs using local plant materials. Helena Island, South Carolina. (The building today houses the Gullah Grub restaurant.) Low Country areas are barely above • Native Islanders is another term that Jacksonville on Florida’s coast. sea level, with lands so low, flooding is refers to the Gullah and Geechee • Today, parts of Georgia and South frequent. In the southeastern U.S., these people. lands were home to the plantations of the Carolina Low Country comprise the Old South, where rice, indigo and cotton • Many historians believe that the word remaining Gullah areas. once grew on large tracts of land, and “Gullah” comes from Angola, a West • The Georgia communities are either slave labor worked the fields. The Gullah African country from which many of called “Freshwater Geechee” or is a civilization of people who are the the slaves came. “Saltwater Geechee,” depending on descendants of these enslaved Africans whether they live on the mainland or from the 17-1800s. They live in the Low • Another idea is that “Gullah” is from the Sea Islands. Country parts of Georgia, Florida and the Gola, a tribe found near the border • Gullah crafts, farming and fishing South Carolina, in both the coastal plain of Liberia and Sierra Leone, West traditions, folk beliefs, music, rice- and the Sea Islands. Africa. based cuisine and storytelling traditions all show the influences of Central and The African Americans still practice a • They developed a creole language, West African cultures. unique culture linked to West Africa today which is speech formed from the • Among other notables, Supreme Court and have for more than 100 years through contact of two languages. Their creole Justice Clarence Thomas had Gullah long-held traditions in spirituality, music, is the Gullah language. roots, with the Gullah language being food and language. his native tongue. • The Gullah people also have a • The Gullah language is closely related • In North and South Carolina, Gullah is culture tied to African influences that to that of The Bahamas, an island chain the preferred name of the descendants makes them unique among African south of Florida. and their language. Americans. • In Georgia and Florida, these same • Historically, the Gullah region people use the name Geechee reached from the Cape Fear area on North Carolina’s coast southward to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gullah • https://discoversouthcarolina.com/gullah • https://www.knowitall.org/series/gullah-culture June 2020 www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals Kidsville News! 3

The Gullah people brought coil baskets made in Africa. function, a single basket could cultural traditions from their The art of sweetgrass coiled take weeks or even months to African homeland with them basket making was born in make. to America. These practices West Africa centuries ago. involved arts, crafts, food and The original basket-making music, making life richer and The baskets were used for the technique was handed down more satisfying for the Gullah storage of dry goods, though from mother to daughter and Geechee, who were enslaved some were so tightly woven remained very much the same people in early America. they could store liquids. for more than 300 years. The cultural traditions also reminded them of their Sweetgrass baskets Because of their isolation relatives and home, linking were made using a sewing along the Southeastern them to what was left behind. technique. Long ropes of shoreline and strong needlegrass rush were coiled, community life, the Gullah The arts and crafts of one on top of the other, and the have been able to preserve the Gullah, such as basket coils were held together with more of their African cultural weaving, cast net making and strips of white oak bark or saw heritage than any other group fabric arts, come from products palmetto. of African Americans. They their ancestors used in daily speak a creole language, use life. Many arts and crafts serve Today makers prefer to use African names, tell African a purpose and are functional. sweetgrass with needlegrass folktales, make African-style rush and longleaf pine needles, handicrafts such as baskets The best-known Gullah sewing these with palmetto and carved walking sticks and craft is the sweetgrass basket, leaf. Dyes add color, patterns enjoy a rich diet primarily named for the grass used in and designs. using rice. its making. A Gullah woman makes a sweetgrass basket Men collected the materials, in Charleston’s City Market —Mattstone911 These coil straw baskets are while women made them into - Own work nearly identical to traditional baskets. Depending on its size and https://www.britannica.com/art/sweetgrass-basket • https://glc.yale.edu/gullah-rice-slavery-and-sierra-leone-american-connection https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/10/141017-gullah-geechee-heritage-corridor-lowcountry-coast-sea-islands-sweetgrass/ Come Out & Play Storytelling has long been a way for mischievous creatures. These animals pop hare. These tales continue to be part of the people to share folklore and history. up in many stories. traditional folklore of numerous peoples It is also a fun way to communicate. • Much like the African-based “trickster throughout those regions. Among the Gullah Geechee and other tales,” Gullah fables often portray animals • Strip Quilting is another Gullah people groups, storytellers pass tales down taking on human personalities and struggling Geechee tradition for storytelling. This generation after generation to preserve to get out of troublesome, though funny, art form passes down from generation to heritage and carry forward tradition. For predicaments. generation between mothers and daughters. these native islanders, storytelling is a • Popular reoccurring characters in Quilts are made from strips of cloth and preserved art form, and the storytellers are Gullah stories are Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, often copy the types of cloth strip quilts highly respected individuals. Brer Bear and Brer Snake. Brer Rabbit is made on looms in many parts of West the trickiest of them all, related to “Cunnie Africa. • Many storytellers act out characters by Rabbit,” a clever character in African changing their voice and making animated folklore and stories. facial expressions. To get the audience • Brer Rabbit was small but defeated his to participate, storytellers ask listeners to enemies using his brain and not his brawn, repeat words. meaning physical strength. • The character was first recorded by Joel • Throughout history, storytelling has Chandler Harris in the 19th century, and first had an oral tradition, which means later The Walt Disney Co. adapted it for its stories are shared out loud and remembered 1946 animated motion picture “Song of the that way. Some, but not all, stories are South.” written down. • The fictional rabbit in the storytelling traditions in West, Central and Southern • Storytelling is entertaining and fun but Africa is the real-life African savanna “The Old Plantation,” South Carolina, about 1790. This famous painting shows also teaches morals and lessons. Gullah slaves dancing and playing musical instruments derived from Africa. • Folktales featuring animals as main characters often portray them as tricky and https://www.knowitall.org/series/gullah-tales • https://www.knowitall.org/series/gullah-culture • https://rebeccacraps.wixsite.com/gullah-geechee/language 4 Kidsville News! www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals June 2020

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The Southeastern Low Country of blue herons are the largest herons in Georgia and South Carolina, home to North America. Little blue herons are the the Gullah Geechee, is also home to smaller variety of herons. They measure many kinds of waterfowl and marsh 22 to 29 inches. One of the tiniest herons birds. Wading birds such as herons and is the green heron, a dark, stocky bird egrets love the creek banks and estuaries, measuring 16 to 18 inches. which are water passage areas were the tide meets a river current and fresh and The color of a heron’s plumage can be salt water mix. gray, white, brown or black, depending on the species. Look along any creek side or marsh bank and see these statue-like, long- An adult great egret at 37 to 41 inches legged birds watch the water for prey. tall is slightly smaller than a great blue These majestic marsh birds are great and heron. Snowy egrets are about 24 inches successful hunters. tall. Great blue and little blue herons use Egrets are mostly white. The great the stand-and-wait method of hunting. egret can be distinguished from other With a quick thrust of their sharp beaks, white egrets by its yellow bill and black they impale small fish and swallow them legs and feet. Adult snowy egrets are whole. all white with a black bill, black legs and yellow feet. They have a touch of Egrets are related to herons but hunt yellow on their bills that helps with differently. They run around in the identification. water, spreading their wings and stirring up the mud to startle their prey. Then The little blue heron makes it hard to they act quickly with their beaks, too. tell herons and egrets apart. The adults and juveniles of the little blue heron In the spring, instead of looking down species look entirely different. Juvenile or along the banks, look up into the trees little blue herons aren’t blue like the and shrubs along the water for waterfowl adults. They’re almost all white. They nests. Such collections of nesting spaces gradually develop patches of blue as are called rookeries. they mature. Standing 38 to 54 inches tall, great https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egret • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_blue_heron • https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/egrets-and-other-herons-how-to-spot-these-birds-of-a-feather/ JUNEDays to remember in June 14, 1777 John Adams introduced a resolution before Congress mandating a United States flag. This anniversary is celebrated each year in the U.S. as Flag Day. June 14 The birthday of West Africa American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811- 1896), who wrote Uncle Steve Evans from Citizen of the World - West Africa-Wikimedia Dili Osuhor (Teemages) - Own work - Wikimedia Tom’s Cabin, a famous West Africa is the most western West Africans primarily West Africa was once known for anti-slavery novel. region of the continent of Africa. The speak Niger-Congo languages. its wildlife, but hunting and poaching June 20 The first day of United Nations defines Western Africa Typical meals include a starchy have caused historic damage to most summer in the Northern as 16 countries, including Ghana, Benin, item like a root vegetable or a grain, animal populations. Natural preserves Hemisphere. Niger, Ivory Coast and the traditional meat or fish cooked with various help protect and preserve species. June 21 The third Sunday rice-growing region that stretches from spices and herbs, and soup or stew. In Senegal’s Bandia Nature Reserve in June, this year June 21, Senegal down to Sierra Leone and Liberia. Yams, plantains, sweet potatoes, rice the animal population includes giraffes, is celebrated as Father’s It was from this “Rice Coast” area that the and sorghum couscous are popular. zebras, rhinos, antelopes, buffaloes, Day in many countries ancestors of the Gullah Geechee lived and West Africans wear the knee-to-ankle- monkeys, crocodiles, tortoises, around the world. were enslaved in the 18th century. Africans length, flowing Boubou robe; traditional apes and a variety of exotic birds. June 27 The birthday from the West African Rice Coast were half-sleeved, hip-long, woven smocks The Yankari National Park in Nigeria has of American musician the largest group of slaves imported into or tunics worn over a pair of baggy species such as the African bush elephant, Mildred J. Hill (1859- South Carolina and Georgia in the 1700s, trousers and the Kente, a huge rectangular olive baboon, patas monkey, Tantalus 1916), who composed bringing customs and culture passed cloth that is wrapped under one arm, monkey, roan antelope, western hartebeest, the melody for “Happy onto the Gullah Geechee still to this day. draped over a shoulder and held in West African lion, African buffalo, Birthday to You.” hand. Kente is a symbol of national pride. waterbuck, bushbuck and hippopotamus. June 30, 1971 The 26th The population of West Africa The Ankasa Conservation Area in Amendment to the U.S. is about 381 million people. Problems for the region include Ghana has habitats for the elephant, Constitution was enacted, loss of 90% of the original rainforest bongo, leopard, chimpanzee, granting the right to vote Islam is the predominant religion and overfishing from population Diana monkey and other primates. to any American citizen of West Africa, introduced to the growth and urban expansion. age 18 years or older. region by traders in the ninth century. • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Africa • https://197travelstamps.com/list-of-west-african-countries-and-capitals/ • https://glc.yale.edu/gullah-rice-slavery-and-sierra-leone-american-connection 8 Kidsville News! www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals June 2020

INTRODUCING Explorer Rewards Cole Now members ages 5-14 can track savings and redeem rewards online. With Member since 2013 all kinds of rewards to explore—such as zoos, ball parks, water parks, and museums—this new program makes it easier than ever for kids to save money, earn rewards, and start exploring. ª listerhill.com/explorer MATHTIME Put a + or - in each circle to make a true sentence. 13 4 8 = 17 The dog ate 9 flies. The cat Answers On Page 23 How many flies did the bird ate 3 more flies than the eat? dog. The bird ate 2 more www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals flies than the cat. How many flies did all three animals eat? June 2020 Kidsville News! 9

Local History Written by Billy Warren Awakening of the Nation. 3. Maud Lindsay: A native of Tuscumbia, Miss Lindsay Did You Know? grew up in Sheffield and taught children in Florence in the The Importance of Good Books first free public kindergarten in the State of Alabama. She wrote many books for children. Perhaps the most well- Do you like to read? You do? That is wonderful! What kinds known book is entitled Mother Stories. of books do you enjoy most? Books about real people which 4. T.S. Stribling: Though he was a native of Clifton, Tennessee, he spent many summers with his grandparents they write themselves (known as autobiographies) or written in Florence and, later, graduated from Florence Normal by someone School (now UNA). Mr. Stribling won the Pulitzer Prize in 1933 for his book entitled else (know as The Store. It was part of a trilogy, all of which were set in Florence. biographies)? Now, you can easily see that good books are Books of very important in our own lives and in the life of the entire Shoals area. The summer of fantasy? Books of 2020 is a perfect time to read. You might like science? Fiction to curl up in a comfortable books (made- chair or lie in a hammock up stories)? Or outdoors or sit under maybe you like a large umbrella at books of all types. the beach or climb to your Regardless of favorite spot in a large tree your choices, you in your backyard. Whatever or wherever it might be, just be sure to take a book (or several) with you. are encouraged to SOMETHING TO DO: become a reader 1. Do you have a favorite author - or more than one? List if you aren't already and to continue if you are a reader. each of them. Consider these lines from a poem by the American writer, 2. Using a reference source, write a brief definition of each of these terms: Emily Dickinson: a. Pulitzer Prize There is no frigate like a book b. Reluctant To take us lands away, c. Obstacle Nor any coursers like a page d. Trilogy Of prancing poetry. In the first line, the word \"frigate\" is another name for a boat or ship; in the third line, the word \"courser\" is another name for a fast-running horse. So, Miss Dickinson, the author, is saying that a good book can take us in our mind and thoughts to places that even a boat or ship or a fast- running horse cannot take us. Do you agree? Have you ever been so involved in the reading of a good book that you were reluctant to put it down because you just had to see what happened on the next page? If so, then you know exactly what Emily Dickinson is saying in the four lines above. Now, did you know that interesting, important books have been written by people in the Shoals area? Well, it's true. There have been many fine writers from Colbert and Lauderdale Counties, the two counties that, together, make up the Shoals. We will talk briefly about four: 1. Helen Keller: You probably know about this courageous lady from Tuscumbia who lost her sight and her hearing at a very young age. She overcame these obstacles to become an inspiration to people around the world. She wrote about all of this in a book which she entitled The Story of My Life. Is the book a biography or an autobiography? If you said \"autobiography,\" you are correct! 2. Hank Klibanoff: Mr. Klibanoff is a native of Florence. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for a book entitled The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle and the 10 Kidsville News! www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals June 2020

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The 1918 Flu Epidemic and the Story of Mass Burials at the Nitrate Plant By Lee Freeman, Florence-Lauderdale Public Library, Local History - Genealogy Department The Covid-19 pandemic is not the first flu pandemic in history. Earlier of the disease during the month of October was not less than six pandemics of the flu occurred in 1890 and again in 1918. This month’s thousand, nearly one-half of our population, and that the deaths from it article will examine the 1918 numbered sixty-five. The majority Spanish Flu pandemic, especially of the fatalities were among the as it impacted Nitrate Plant No. 2. ‘strangers within our gates’, of people who had come to engage in For most of the 19th century work of the government plants.” influenza was known as “the So the overwhelming majority grippe” (from the French for of people who were sick got better. “influenza” but also \"seizure,\" However, reports have come down from gripper, \"grasp or hook\"). In over the years that many more September and October of 1918, people succumbed to the flu than the Spanish Flu, which actually the newspapers reported. Several originated at Fort Riley, Kansas, local people have told stories of swept America and the world. US mass graves being dug at Nitrate soldiers spread the disease across Plant No. 2 to bury these people. the nation then across the Atlantic Top Left, the Main Hospital and One local resident who mentioned to Europe, which was in the final Dispensary at the Nitrate Plant these mass burials was the late Mr. days of “The Great War” (WWI). in 1918; Modern estimates put the final Right, a memorial marker hon- Alfred McCroskey (a fine man death toll at over 50 million people oring flu victims of the Air Ni- whom I knew), who was a young worldwide. Of those 50 million trate Corporation buried in the boy in 1918. He stated: people, estimates are that 675,000 ANC Cemetery plot in Oak- “You spoke of the flu epidemic. were Americans, with the highest wood Cemetery, Sheffield, mortality rates being among young erected a couple of years ago That hit when we were living in adults between fifteen and thirty- largely through the efforts of lo- Village One, and I tell you it is four years old. Overcrowding and cal historian Joel Mize. scary even today to me to think the unsanitary living conditions of Bottom, a 1921 map and listing about it. I remember going to the many people contributed to the spread of the Spanish Flu, which possibly of those ANC burials. Sheffield Station with my mother originated in Spain, hence its name. and the loading platform was at least a block long, or even longer, and I On October 3, the Alabamian Dispatch of Tuscumbia, in Colbert have seen plain wooden coffins stacked the entire length of that platform County, reported that there were 200 cases of the Spanish Flu in the as high as they could stack them. . . . They would just move out and bring Shoals, with 127 of those in Florence. According to the paper, as soon more in. . . . as these cases developed local health officers ordered movie theaters to “Many people that worked here were Mexican; many were illiterate. close and asked churches and synagogues to cancel their services, which The only way you could identify them was with a badge number. They most did. Interestingly enough however, in our area, unlike cities such died just like flies and they buried them almost the same way. You would as Selma, in South Alabama, the schools did not immediately close. By see those big steam-driven ditch diggers digging long trenches—over October 10 the whole city of Selma was closed and under quarantine. on the side of the slag pile is one place—and just laying them in, one People across the US were requested to stay home, but if they had to right after another—unmarked graves. I really don’t know and I don’t venture out, to wear masks in public, much as we’ve been doing for the think I ever heard how many thousands of people died, but a tremendous past three months. number of people died from that flu epidemic.” Are these stories of mass burials at Nitrate Plant No. 2 true? To find On October 11, the Florence Times reported 2,000 cases of “the grippe” out, in 2010 and 2011 TVA’s Cultural Compliance Office conducted at Nitrate Plant No. 2 alone, though it noted that 1,500 of the patients a study and search for this mass grave but were unable to locate it. there were recovering and that half were expected to be discharged in a They uncovered a 1921 list of approximately one hundred burials in few days. an Air Nitrate Corporation Cemetery established in 1918 adjoining the Oakwood Cemetery in Sheffield, as well as three smaller cemeteries on Nitrate Plants 1 and 2 were constructed in Sheffield and what later the grounds of the old Nitrate Plant (now part of the TVA Reservation) became Muscle Shoals, between 1917 and 1918, fifteen years before the but no mass grave. Some local historians believe this mass grave exists creation of TVA (1933). Made possible by the 1916 National Defense but simply hasn’t been located yet. They argue that the local papers Act, President Woodrow Wilson designated the Shoals area in northwest under-reported the numbers of flu deaths in order to prevent a panic Alabama as the location of two nitrate plants, two steam-generated among local people. On October 30, 1918, the Lawrence Democrat electric plants (only one was constructed) and Wilson Dam (named after of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee reported that Lee Irwin, an undertaker Pres. Wilson) to insure America’s supply of munitions-grade ammonium from Mt. Pleasant, Tennessee, had been called to assist undertakers in nitrate for the Great War. This required the construction of 236 permanent Sheffield, in Alabama, “on account of the unusual number of deaths from buildings, 1,700 temporary buildings, 165 miles of sewer and service influenza at the nitrate plant . . .” however the paper didn’t record the pipelines and 685 miles of electrical cable. An estimated 12,000 daily actual number. Assuming the Florence Times November 8, 1918 report employees were hired, which number peaked at 19,300 in August of was accurate, sixty-five deaths in 1918, all at the same time, may have 1918. Among these employees were many African-Americans, Latinos been regarded as an “unusual number.” Regardless, research by local and a few Native Americans. Workers literally came from all over the historians is ongoing and hopefully soon we will finally be able to prove US to work at the nitrate plants. The Air Nitrate Corporation (ANC) was or disprove this fascinating piece of local lore. the civilian organization tasked with building Plant No. 2 for the US In the meantime, stay safe! Remember to maintain your social Government. On November 8, 1918, the Florence Times reported: distance and when in public wear a mask. “The Times has it from reliable authority that the number of cases 14 Kidsville News! www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals June 2020

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The Amazing Art of M.C. Escher M. C. Escher began study as an architect, drawing. Do you see that it but he soon found that his love was art, and would be impossible to build graphic design in particular. Although he did such a building? some painting, most of his work was done using Lithography and Wood block printing. Lithography involves It would be an interesting universe to have \"STARS\" like painting on stone. After several depicted below. It's certainly chemical procedures and inking, eye-catching but not reality. the picture is transferred to paper. In wood block printing, the Here are other interesting image is carved into wood and samples of his art. Notice how inking again transfers it to paper. the dark birds on the left morph Both methods require much (change smoothly) into white skill and practice besides artistic talent. M.C. Escher produced 448 lithographs, woodcuts and wood engravings. This Dutch artist was born in 1898 and died in birds flying to 1972, however the right. his work has Look how the received great reptiles are emerging attention in our from the page: 21st century. Many of his drawings involved impossible objects like this drawing labeled \"WATERFALL\". All appears well at first glance until one notices that the water falls down, then seemingly continues to flow DOWN to the TOP of the waterfall to drop again. Escher has tricked your eye using \"false perspective\". \"Belvedere\" Explore more of his art on the internet: google \"Escher art\" Imagination is amazing! is another © 2020 Dr. David R. Curott, UNA Professor Emeritus impossible 16 Kidsville News! www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals June 2020

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This Page Brought To You By: ?? ? ? ?? ?? ? ? ?? ?? What’s it Like to Be? ? ? ? ? ?? ?? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? Please tell our readers a What kind of education or with other people. I love to recognize that person. A painting little about yourself, including training do artists need? Some teach children and adults how to should not look exactly like a your name and occupation. artists have no training at all. They draw. When they learn to “see photograph. If someone wants a My name is Kathy Flood, and I are self-taught, but I am not one of as an artist sees,” it opens up a picture, they can hang that on the am an artist and art instructor. I those. I could never figure out how whole new world for them. They wall instead. A painting or portrait paint commissioned portraits my grandmother created those learn to see things most people do is much more interesting to view. of people and pets. When I say lovely paintings, so I started taking not notice. Also, I love to see my commissioned, I mean that people adult education classes. Those student’s creations. Each student What do you wish everyone pay me to paint portraits for were good, but because I wanted has their style, and that style knew about art? I wish everyone them. A portrait is a picture of a to learn more, I went back to comes through in their drawings. knew that it is possible to learn person or a pet, usually with just college to obtain an associate to draw. It is a skill anyone can the face or head and shoulders. I degree in fine arts. Learning art What is the most challenging learn. You may know someone also teach children and adults to history and design are essential thing about the work you do? who has figured out how to draw draw and to paint in watercolor. parts of an art education. Studying The most challenging thing without lessons, and you may master artists, like Van Gogh, about my job is painting a think they are so much more When did you know that you helped me to be a better artist commissioned watercolor portrait talented than you are. However, wanted to be an artist? I wanted and a better problem solver. Each of a person.  Drawing and painting you can learn to draw, too. Taking to be an artist as far back as I can drawing or painting comes with someone’s face is extremely some drawing lessons can help remember. My favorite presents as many challenges, and learning challenging and time-consuming. you figure out how to see as an a child were a new box of crayons, how to tackle those challenges and When someone is paying you artist sees. Once you learn this a big pad of paper and play not give up is important. for that painting, it has to be skill, you can draw just about dough. I loved creating colorful very good. It does not have to be anything. It does, however, take drawings and sculpting objects What is your favorite thing exactly like the photograph that practice. You can’t be good at with play dough. My grandmother about being an artist? My I work from but should have a anything unless you practice. was an artist and was a significant favorite thing about being an “good likeness.” A good likeness influence on me. artist is sharing my knowledge means that you should be able to June 2020 18 Kidsville News! www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals

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A Section Especially for Parents Summer is finally here. You know what that means — road trips, beach days and lazy days at home. Keep your kiddo occupied and engaged in learning with these fantastic picks for kids of all ages. You can find even more great books for young readers at ReadKiddoRead.com. BEGINNER READS The Golden Glow The Wonderful Things You Will Be By Benjamin Flouw For ages 3-7 By Emily Winfield Martin Fox loves picking flowers. So, For ages 3-7 when he comes upon a flower he's never heard of, he decides to go Every parent looks at their little one and sees limitless potential — the future is for on a quest to find one and pick it. this tiny person to conquer. Along the way, he encounters Emily Winfield Martin's beautiful, simple all sorts of creatures and plants. picture books take that concept and This is an excellent book for kids changes it a little. Rather than focusing on who love the outdoors, and its a potential career path or future, it whimsical illustrations are sure to focuses on the child's character, whether delight children and parents alike. he or she is brave, clever or creative. This is a beautiful story for all kids, young and old. PAGETURNERS Treasure Hunters: All-American A l i B-E-N-JAMiNN�nfll.MOAIJTHOIOf rHtrHJHOU04/Tl(U'fllSH The Next Great Paulie Fink Adventure By Ali Benjamin By James Patterson and For ages 8-12 Chris Grabenstein For ages 8-12 Caitlyn Breen arrives at Mitchell School in the seventh grade — the year after The Kidd kids are so bored. They're Paulie Fink transfered. Caitlyn doesn't back in the United States while their know who Paulie is, but he's a legend with parents curate an exhibit at the his former classmates, and they're lost Smithsonian Natural History Museum without him. With a Paulie Fink-sized hole in Washington, D.C. in the seventh grade, the kids team up in an American Idol-like competition to find When their long-lost uncle Richie the next great Paulie Fink. Who is there shows up with a treasure hunt offer, better to judge than the impartial new how could they possibly resist? This girl, Caitlyn Breen? In trying to find the road-tripping, treasure-hunting next great Paulie Fink, Caitlyn might just expedition is sure to delight your learn a bit about herself, too. kiddo this summer. ADVANCED READS When We Were Lost If I'm Being Honest By Kevin Wignall For ages 13 and up By Emily Wibberley Tom Calloway didn't want to go to For ages 13 and up Costa Rica with his classmates — he Cameron Bright's classmates have some doesn't even like most of them. But when their plane crashes in the jungle, choice words for her. She's not exactly Tom and his classmates build unlikely the nicest girl in school, and almost friendships as they struggle to survive everyone shies away from her. When a and find a way out of the jungle. boy she likes, Andrew, finally tells her off, she decides it's time for a change. The This fast-paced pageturner will be changes she makes lead to some sure to keep your teenager up late into unexpected alliances. A modern retelling the night reading. of The Taming of the Shrew (with some sly references to another Shakesperean adaptation, Ten Things I Hate About You), this book is a surefire pick for a fun beach or summertime read. Kidsville News Inc., Truman and James Patterson’s READKIDDOREAD.COM are pleased to partner on thisKidpsavgileletNoehwes,lpTryuomuandiasncdoJvaemrebsoPoakttsertshoant'skRidEAsDyKoIDuDloOvReEAaDre.CsOuMrearteoplolevaese. d to 20 Kidsville News! partner on this page towhwelwp.ykoidusdviisllceonveewr bs.ocookms/tshhaotatlhse kids you love are sure to love. PARENTOWN June 2020

ParenTown’s KidShape For nature lovers, perhaps nothing to their sleeping bags and tents. A others. Such an explanation can make is more enjoyable than packing up the fun night sleeping under the stars it easy to explain to youngsters why camping gear, traveling to a favorite in the backyard also may make kids you’re purchasing specified items, campsite and getting away from it all more enthusiastic about an upcoming even if those items weren’t kids’ top while sleeping under the stars. Such camping trip in the woods. choices. an experience can be transformative, turning first-time campers into • Go over safety early and • Plan the family menu ahead lifelong enthusiasts. often. Use every opportunity to of time. Plan the meals so you can explain camping safety measures ensure everyone will continue to eat The opportunity to turn youngsters to youngsters in advance of your healthily. But make sure to include into nature enthusiasts who can’t trip. Emphasize the importance of a few kid-friendly camping classics, wait to spend time outside may be staying together in the woods and like s’mores, in the meal plan as well. one reason why so many families teach youngsters how to identify go camping. A 2018 report from potentially harmful plants like • Prepare a camping-friendly Kampgrounds of America found poison ivy, making sure they know first-aid kit. Bandages and topical that 52% of campers have children, to avoid coming into contact with antibiotic creams are part and parcel making camping among the most these and other poisonous plants. of any first-aid kit, regardless of popular and family-friendly ways to Contact your local parks department where you’re going. But the elements enjoy the great outdoors. or the campground where you will be pose a different set of challenges staying for some additional advice on that require a more extensive first- Camping with youngsters can help camping safety. aid kit. When designing a first-aid families make lasting memories. kit for your camping trip, be sure to Parents who have never before taken • Let kids help when choosing include all the usual items, but also their children camping may benefit camping equipment. Youngsters over-the-counter medications that from using a few strategies to make may be more excited about camping can treat pain, allergies, constipation the trip as fun as possible. if they’re allowed to select specific and diarrhea. An extra gallon or supplies, including their sleeping two of water also makes for a wise • Make a trial run in the bags and tents. Before visiting your addition to campers’ first-aid kits. backyard. A night camping in the nearby camping retailer, explain to backyard won’t be exactly the same kids that tents come in various styles Family camping trips can instill a as a night in the woods. The wildlife because they’re designed to protect lifelong love of the great outdoors in and insect numbers will be fewer in campers from certain elements that youngsters. A few simple strategies the backyard, and a close-to-home may be more common in areas than can help parents make such trips safe camping night can acclimate children and memorable. Knowledge Power Submitted By Patricia J. Weaver Helen Keller 4. Helen Keller was not born blind and deaf. How old was she Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in when she contracted an illness, that might have been scarlet fever Tuscumbia, Alabama. Her family lived on a homestead or meningitis, which left her blind and deaf? called Ivy Green that Helen’s grandfather had built decades A. 12 months B. 15 months C. 19 months D. 22 months earlier. Helen’s father, Arthur H. Keller, spent many years as an editor for the Tuscumbia North 5. Who was Helen Keller’s traveling companion? Alabamian and had served as a captain A. Anne Sullivan B. Polly Thompson C. Winnie Corbally for the Confederate Army. Helen’s D. All of the above paternal grandmother was the second cousin of Robert E. Lee. 6. What was the name of the first school Helen Keller attended? A. Horace Mann School for the Deaf B. Wright-Humason 1. What was the first word Anne School for the Deaf C. Perkins Institute for the Blind Sullivan spelled into Helen’s hand? D. American Foundation for the Blind A. Doll B. Mug C. Dog D. Water 7. What famous author was a good friend of Helen Keller? 2. How old was Helen Keller when A. Washington Irving B. Ralph Waldo Emerson Helen Keller with Anne Sullivan in July Anne Sullivan came to her home in C. Margaret Fuller D. Mark Twain 1888 Tuscumbia, Alabama? A. 5 B. 6 C. 7 D. 8 Websites to check out: http://www.helenkellerbirthplace.org 3. Helen Keller was the first deaf blind person to earn a http://www.biography.com/people/helen-keller-9361967 Bachelor of Arts Degree. 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great love for each other. What stands out in this collection is incredibly detailed and expressive animation. The vibrant colors and pleasant scenery go hand in hand to create a wholesome, fun show for children and families to watch. Besides being fun to watch, it is an excellent choice for teaching Photos © Netflix https://youtube/_xmGNvh83_w life lessons . “Llama Llama Family Fun Collection” is a cute, fun The message and family-friendly DVD based on an award-winning book and TV series. The storyline and adorable personalities of of the “Llama the characters combine to make the viewing experience enjoyable. The characters’ companionship adds a charming Llama Family Fun touch. The llamas care a lot about one another and being the best of friends, are present for one another through Collection” is that good times and bad. you should always  The DVD is a collection of episodes about a group of animal companions that go on a lot of adventures, meet be willing to help new friends and solve problems along the way. In one episode, Llama Llama’s friend, Luna, the giraffe, struggles your friends and with bad stage fright. She has a dance recital the next day. Llama Llama and Nelly Gnu want to help her so she can work together to perform without becoming nervous on stage. In another episode, Llama Llama and two of his friends, Gilroy Goat solve problems and Euclid Sheep, plan a sleep over together. What they don’t know is that strange things will happen just as they as a team. It is are about to go to sleep. But do the friends’ imaginations wander too far? successful in  Some of the lead characters are Mama Llama, voiced communicating by Jennifer Garner, and Llama Llama, voiced by Shayle Simons. They are an adorable mother-son duo and show its message by featuring the close- knit friend group sticking together and helping each other face their fears. The message is positive and uplifting, teaching young children that being a good friend is an important attribute to have.   I give this series 4 out of 5 stars and recommend it for ages 2 to 10. The “Llama Llama Family Fun Collection” DVD is available now. 22 Kidsville News! www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals June 2020

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