I just found out about the Evergreen Cemetery Discovery Walk which is coming up this weekend. It's a unique history performance where volunteers research and act out local people who are buried at Evergreen Cemetery. This year's event will focus on those who have contributed to Illinois State University.
The McLean County Museum of History spends 11 months preparing for the event by researching the characters, writing the script, auditioning and rehearsing the actors, creating costumes, and then managing the performances. Wow, what a huge undertaking! The audience gets to walk around the cemetery for 90 minutes and see the actors dramatizing the lives of Jesse Fell, Edwin Bakewell, Angeline Vernon Milner, Henry McCormick, Elizabeth Mitchell Christian, and several others.
Performances will take place September 29 and 30, and October 6 and 7 at 11 am and 2 pm. Tickets can be purchased in advance for $12 at the museum ($10 for members and $4 for children and students) or $14 at the gate of the cemetery one hour before each show.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Toddler interval training
I get so frustrated by celebrities who claim to get fit simply by chasing their kids around. So today I invented toddler interval training. I took H to a local cemetery because A) it has lots of smooth small roads to walk on now that students are using school tracks and B) it is relatively safe from vehicle traffic.
Initially I wanted to go into Bloomington and do this on Constitution Trail, but the volume of morning traffic set off my mom safety meter. So no post on the allegedly wonderful Constitution Trail, but maybe we'll venture there on a Sunday with two adults.
We set out this morning in our running shoes and the goal was to walk when H walked and run when he ran and not to turn down a race. We walked and ran and raced for 20 minutes before he wanted to be picked up. Then I put him on my shoulders and walked carrying an extra 40 pounds. We ended up doing 35-40 minutes of this and I did get my heart rate up, but did not break a sweat. On the other hand, H was wiped out and begging for a drink of water and a rest in the car.
PS not to return to my mommy blogging past, but for those that know us, H read a word yesterday. We were looking for a recipe for dinner and I handed H a printed recipe with no pictures and I didn't tell him what recipe he had. He pointed at the word beans and said, "This says beans." H is 2 3/4 and beginning to READ!
Initially I wanted to go into Bloomington and do this on Constitution Trail, but the volume of morning traffic set off my mom safety meter. So no post on the allegedly wonderful Constitution Trail, but maybe we'll venture there on a Sunday with two adults.
We set out this morning in our running shoes and the goal was to walk when H walked and run when he ran and not to turn down a race. We walked and ran and raced for 20 minutes before he wanted to be picked up. Then I put him on my shoulders and walked carrying an extra 40 pounds. We ended up doing 35-40 minutes of this and I did get my heart rate up, but did not break a sweat. On the other hand, H was wiped out and begging for a drink of water and a rest in the car.
PS not to return to my mommy blogging past, but for those that know us, H read a word yesterday. We were looking for a recipe for dinner and I handed H a printed recipe with no pictures and I didn't tell him what recipe he had. He pointed at the word beans and said, "This says beans." H is 2 3/4 and beginning to READ!
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