Hi Katherine -

Have your students had any *LUCK with the census searches with the MYSTERY Couple from the [old tin types]?

I was reading quite a bite about the 1880's and was surprised to learn - what type of MUSIC? NEWS? and events from that time period?

People were eating Quaker Oats cereal.

People used cloths WRINGERS

1884 - popular song was - On My Darling - Clementine (reminded me of that old cartoon I watched as a child - Huckleberry Hound)

1880 - born Helen Keller - 1887 Anne Sullivan helps Helen

1884 - Mark Twain writes or publishes - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

1883 - Buffalo Bill opens his Wild West Show

1887 - Sherlock Holmes

1888 - Thomas Edison - phonograph invented

I know have a *BETTER IDEA of what was actually going on in the 1880's - verses having some obscure - unimagineable thought of that time???????

Doug