Wandering Educators

pen4hire on November 8th, 2011

Today we get to know a bit more about our Culture Travel Tuesday contributor, Dr. Jessie Voigts. Regular readers of A Traveler’s Library are familiar with Jessie, since she has been an almost monthly contributor for many moons.  She has been bringing us synopses of interviews with authors from her wonderfully useful website Wandering Educators. [...]

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pen4hire on June 10th, 2011

Saturday, June 11 is the last chance to win a copy of this book. I am the co-author with Charnell Havens, and I will immodestly state that this is a beautiful book that tells a fascinating story of the life and work of a Navajo Artist who lived from 1917 to 1956. The book includes more [...]

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pen4hire on May 25th, 2011

  Destination: France Book: Taking Root in Provence by Anne-Marie Simons A Guest Post by Dr. Jessie Voigts [Note: What you see below is a portion of a recent interview that Jessie Voigts published at Wandering Educators. I extracted just three of the questions and answers, but there is a lot more. Read the entire interview [...]

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pen4hire on April 20th, 2011

Destination: North America Photography Website: Walking to Mexico by Jordan Bower A GUEST POST by Dr. Jessie Voights (Note: When I saw Jessie’s article about Jordan Bower on her web site, I asked her if she would share his wonderful adventure with the readers of A Traveler’s Library. No, it is not a book, but [...]

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pen4hire on March 25th, 2011

Destination: Australia Book: Natasha Lands Down Under (a young adult novel), by Katherine McCaughan GUEST POST by Jessie Voigts I’ve recently read an extraordinary book, entitled Natasha Lands Down Under. Written by Katherine McCaughan, this book is an intercultural odyssey, set in China and Australia. Natasha Lands Down Under is a compelling read, exploring one [...]

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pen4hire on February 21st, 2011

Destination: Northern Ireland Book Review: Northern Ireland: An Old Castle Standing on a Ford: One Yank’s Life in an Almost Peaceful Belfast (2010) by Caroline Oceana Ryan A GUEST POST by Kerry Dexter, Music editor at Wandering Educators.com Caroline Oceana Ryan is an American poet, playwright and travel writer who in 2000 left her life [...]

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pen4hire on January 24th, 2011

Wanted you to know that I have a few guest posts floating around the web. Travel Wonders of the World features my awe on seeing the  The Bayeux Tapestry and several of my photographs from Bayeux. Your Life Is A Trip, I talk about an experience I had at a pueblo, while gathering material for [...]

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pen4hire on January 23rd, 2011

(Photos in this post were taken by Vera Marie or Ken Badertscher on a 1990 raft trip through the Grand Canyon, scanned from prints.) Destination: Grand Canyon, USA Book: The Grand Adventure: A True Story of Survival and Determination on an Amazing River Journey into the Grand Canyon and Other Canyons of the West, by [...]

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pen4hire on January 4th, 2011

We brought you reviews of 129 books and 20 movies this year. Really?? Guest reviewers wrote 38 of those reviews, but I penned the rest.

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