Month: September 2023

Special Teachers Plant Seeds That Bloom Forever

by Dana Wineland O’Rourke, Contributing Writer Freshly waxed floors, stacks of textbooks, new boxes of crayons, and peanut butter sandwiches in brown paper bags; that’s what the first day of sixth grade looked and smelled like at St. Anthony School. …

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Seeing Spots

by Beth Dolinar, Contributing Writer The first spotted lantern fly I ever laid eyes upon was in a netted cage at an apple orchard near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. I was there in August 2022 with a photographer, filming a documentary about …

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Gastro-diplomacy

The important role food can play in diplomacy by Debbie Casini Klein, Director,  I Want to be an Ambassador!  Diplomacy is the art of maintaining peaceful relationships between nations, groups or individuals. And an important aspect of diplomacy, which our …

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My Summer as a Farmer

by Gina Catanzarite, Director, Teen Writer! When I was a child, I read a chapter book called 100 Pounds of Popcorn by Hazel Krantz.  Written in 1961, it tells the tale of a brother and sister who find a 100-pound …

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