Summer Work/Fun/Study/Travel for teachers

National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks of History Workshops
One week workshops
(Locations, titles, listed below)
$500 stipend

I did two of these. One week is perfect to explore an area, hang out with a few teachers, learn something, and beat a quick retreat. Pick an interesting area and interesting topic. And you get $500.

Teacher Ranger Teacher (National Park Service)
Acadia National Park
Train and work as a ranger/guide
8 weeks
I’ve never done this.

Landmarks this summer: (topic, location)

• Blue Ridge Parkway, Appalachian State
• Shaping the Constitution, Mount Vernon
• The Underground Railroad, Harpers Ferry
• Pearl Harbor
• Immigration, Religion, Culture, Lower East Side
• Zora Neale Hurston, Winter Park, FL
• FDR, Hyde Park
• Civil Rights Movement, Atlanta
• Andrew Jackson, The Hermitage, Nashville
• Eudora Welty, Jackson, MS
• US Industrialization, Duluth, MN
• James Madison, Orange, VA
• The Constitution, Philadelphia
• African Americans in DC, DC
• Immigration, Ellis Island
• Suffrage in the West, Laramie WY
• Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia
• Abraham Lincoln, Southern Illinois University
• Immigration and Public Health, Ellis Island
• Missouri-Kansas Border Wars, Kansas City
• Inventing America, Lowell MA*

I went to Lowell 2 summers ago. It was a wonderful 5 day course including a day trip to Sturbridge, a day trip to Walden Pond and the Alcott house and Concord. The other three days were spent exploring the factories, canals, and old neighborhoods.