Dawn Reader

Title page from 1818 edition, published anonymously Volume I begins with a series of letters from Robert Walton, an explorer, to his ...

We live right across the street from the old Hudson Town Hall. On the roof is the town's storm siren.  In the picture you can see it...

Villa Diodati; Geneva, Switzerland 1816--summer home of Lord Byron-- where Mary Godwin (later, Mary Shelley) first told the story of Frank...

Mom's high school yearbook photo (senior year), 1936, Richmond, Va. A couple of years ago I did a post about my mom on Mother...

A couple of days ago I finished the book you see pictured here--Tobias Smollett's The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle  (1751). Smolle...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Not long after I retired from Aurora in January 1997, I began keeping a journal. I’d done this sporadic...

This has been Teacher Appreciation Week. I was going to write a post about it--then remembered that I did one last year. I read it ove...