[Magdalen] trivia

[Charles Wohlers]

Montpelier's a great place! You should visit it some time. Just 25 miles 
from here.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: M J _Mike_ Logsdon
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 5:41 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] trivia

I remember like it was yesterday my ENTIRE 4th grade year involving so many 
4th grade things, but one of those I remember the most fondly is the 
memorizing of state capitols.  Grant you, (and many of you will like this), 
my 4th grade teacher was a Presbyterian minister (coincident with teaching? 
don't know) who ran his classroom like a one-room schoolhouse of olde, desks 
in rows, everything done as a group (maybe not totally one-room 
schoolhouse-style, I guess), but there was a time and a place for 
everything, and everyone played a part.  One of those things was the state 
capitols, and when that happened, he'd pull down the U.S. map on the front 
chalkboard, he'd sit at his desk and call out a state, and we'd all vie to 
get picked to go up and identify the state and its capitol.  We all had a 
personal favorite.  Mine was Montpelier, VT.  Don't know why.

And the year before that, the fixation with me and my classmates in 3rd 
grade was Milton Bradley's "Game of the States".  I still mean to get a 
vintage copy of that, just to play it with Everett.