The underlying purpose of the restoration of New Salem, Lincoln's early home, is not to make a show place but to provide a lesson to the people in the common virtues and true principles of life.
-- Illinois State Journal, May 9, 1926
A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
New Salem ...
Copied from bulletin board in the employees' break room at Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site:
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About Me
- Pete
- Springfield (Ill.), United States
- I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.
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