MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Sep 24 - 01:25 PM

Yes, I am still around. Yesterday I gave a class (Life-Long Learning sort of thing) entitled something like "Riverboats, Steamboats, and the Growth of America." It went okay, and I even got applause because I didn't sing anything. I went on for 90 minutes, and talked to about 60 people if you count the Zoomers.

We (oops, slipped into the First Person Imperial) I may do another class in the Spring on Printing and the Reformation.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Sep 24 - 01:41 PM

Good job! Did this involve actually going to the river or getting onto a boat? MOM would love that!

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Sep 24 - 04:36 PM

Librarians rule!

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Sep 24 - 08:37 PM

The river that flows here is the Mighty and Powerful Portneuf, which sometimes carries enough water to float a stick (the story that a betrayed young maiden decided to throw herself from a bridge and end it all but only sprained her ankle when she landed is a folktale). So no, we didn’t even visit Mink Creek or Pocatello Creek.

I, however, grew up on the banks and water of the Upper River and have steamboated from St. Paul to Nawlins, as well as being personally involved with the Hudson, Potomac, Columbia, Tehana, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, Tennessee, Tombigbee, Yazoo, intercostal waterway, St. Lawrence River and Seaway, and other such waters.

Mostly it was putting a bunch of stuff together in a way that made it interesting.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Sep 24 - 08:05 PM

I have a secret about doing this sort of thing. I figure that if it's interesting to me it's probably interesting to others. So I can use presenting a class as a reason to research something and buy books about it. Like a few years ago when I did a class on "Pandemics Of The Past" for this sort of thing. COVID was going on and there was all sorts of talk about whether or not it was real, if it was dangerous, and if so what did people do about such things as plagues in times gone by. I became interested and did some research and put together a presentation on past epidemics. Most of the audience was by Zoom but it seemed to be well received.

I got a question about the title of one, "The Recent Crime Wave in Idaho, 1840 to 1910" but I answered that it's just a nanosecond ago in geologic time. AND I got to look up the crooks, and there were a lot of them.