The Boring Museum Lecture That Wasn’t: Author Applegate Brings History To Life
Yelena Samofalova / youthjournalism.org A newsboy hawking papers greets visitors to “The Guilded Age of Hartford” exhibit at the Mark Twain House and Museum. By Alan Burkholder Junior Reporter Youth Journalism International HARTFORD – I’m not a history buff by any stretch of the imagination. I find that listening to tales of the past just leaves me wanting to get up and go do something more interactive, like finish that novel I’ve been writing or mocking a B-movie on television, or basically anything that doesn’t leave me sitting by myself and feeling bored out of my skull. As such, I was rather skeptical about attending a lecture by Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Debby Applegate, detailing the life of abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher. If you don’t know who Henry Ward Beecher is, you’re not the only one. Yelena Samofalova / … Read entire article »
Filed under: Alan Burkholder, Debby Applegate, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain House
Prizewinners Fight Bullying, Homelessness
Ameni Mathlouthi / youthjournalism.org Moderator John Dankosky, left, of WNPR, leads a discussion for the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford last month. Panelists are, from left, Jess Rimington of the One World Youth Project, University of Maryland student Hannah Morgan, Amherst Regional High School student Tess Domb Sadof and Calvin Terrell of Social Centric. By Yelena Samofalova Reporter Youth Journalism International HARTFORD, Conn., U.S.A. – The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center honored two American teens in June for essays they wrote and work they did to inspire social change. The 2012 Stowe Prize Student Awards, now in their second year, went to high school student Tess Domb Sadof of Amherst, Mass., and Hannah Morgan, who attends the University of Maryland. Morgan wrote for Street Sense, a newspaper sold by Washington, D.C. area homeless people. She used her … Read entire article »
Filed under: Ameni Mathlouthi, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stowe Center, Student Stowe Prize, Yelena Samofalova
Prizewinners Fight Bullying, Homelessness
Ameni Mathlouthi / youthjournalism.org Moderator John Dankosky, left, of WNPR, leads a discussion for the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford last month. Panelists are, from left, Jess Rimington of the One World Youth Project, University of Maryland student Hannah Morgan, Amherst Regional High School student Tess Domb Sadof and Calvin Terrell of Social Centric. By Yelena Samofalova Reporter Youth Journalism International HARTFORD, Conn., U.S.A. – The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center honored two American teens in June for essays they wrote and work they did to inspire social change. The 2012 Stowe Prize Student Awards, now in their second year, went to high school student Tess Domb Sadof of Amherst, Mass., and Hannah Morgan, who attends the University of Maryland. Morgan wrote for Street Sense, a newspaper sold by Washington, D.C. area homeless people. She used her … Read entire article »
Filed under: Ameni Mathlouthi, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stowe Center, Student Stowe Prize, Yelena Samofalova
Prizewinners Fight Bullying, Homelessness
Ameni Mathlouthi / youthjournalism.org Moderator John Dankosky, left, of WNPR, leads a discussion for the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford last month. Panelists are, from left, Jess Rimington of the One World Youth Project, University of Maryland student Hannah Morgan, Amherst Regional High School student Tess Domb Sadof and Calvin Terrell of Social Centric. By Yelena Samofalova Reporter Youth Journalism International HARTFORD, Conn., U.S.A. – The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center honored two American teens in June for essays they wrote and work they did to inspire social change. The 2012 Stowe Prize Student Awards, now in their second year, went to high school student Tess Domb Sadof of Amherst, Mass., and Hannah Morgan, who attends the University of Maryland. Morgan wrote for Street Sense, a newspaper sold by Washington, D.C. area homeless people. She used her … Read entire article »
Filed under: Ameni Mathlouthi, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stowe Center, Student Stowe Prize, Yelena Samofalova
Prizewinners Fight Bullying, Homelessness
Ameni Mathlouthi / youthjournalism.org Moderator John Dankosky, left, of WNPR, leads a discussion for the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford last month. Panelists are, from left, Jess Rimington of the One World Youth Project, University of Maryland student Hannah Morgan, Amherst Regional High School student Tess Domb Sadof and Calvin Terrell of Social Centric. By Yelena Samofalova Reporter Youth Journalism International HARTFORD, Conn., U.S.A. – The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center honored two American teens in June for essays they wrote and work they did to inspire social change. The 2012 Stowe Prize Student Awards, now in their second year, went to high school student Tess Domb Sadof of Amherst, Mass., and Hannah Morgan, who attends the University of Maryland. Morgan wrote for Street Sense, a newspaper sold by Washington, D.C. area homeless people. She used her … Read entire article »
Filed under: Ameni Mathlouthi, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stowe Center, Student Stowe Prize, Yelena Samofalova
YJI Is Part Of Today’s Stowe Center Fair
Youth Journalism International is pleased to be part of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center’s Inspiration to Action fair today in Hartford, Conn. We look forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones, as well as hearing the stories of the young winners of the Student Stowe Prize. If you are at the fair, be sure to say hello! TweetShare#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;} … Read entire article »
Filed under: Connecticut, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hartford, Inspiration to Action Fair, Stowe Center, Student Stowe Prize
YJI Is Part Of Today’s Stowe Center Fair
Youth Journalism International is pleased to be part of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center’s Inspiration to Action fair today in Hartford, Conn.We look forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones, as well as hearing the stories of the young winners of the Student Stowe Prize. If you are at the fair, be sure to say hello! TweetShare#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;} … Read entire article »
Filed under: Connecticut, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hartford, Inspiration to Action Fair, Stowe Center, Student Stowe Prize
YJI Is Part Of Today’s Stowe Center Fair
Youth Journalism International is pleased to be part of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center’s Inspiration to Action fair today in Hartford, Conn.We look forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones, as well as hearing the stories of the young winners of the Student Stowe Prize. If you are at the fair, be sure to say hello! TweetShare#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;} … Read entire article »
Filed under: Connecticut, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hartford, Inspiration to Action Fair, Stowe Center, Student Stowe Prize
YJI Is Part Of Today’s Stowe Center Fair
Youth Journalism International is pleased to be part of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center’s Inspiration to Action fair today in Hartford, Conn.We look forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones, as well as hearing the stories of the young winners of the Student Stowe Prize. If you are at the fair, be sure to say hello! TweetShare#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;} … Read entire article »
Filed under: Connecticut, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hartford, Inspiration to Action Fair, Stowe Center, Student Stowe Prize
YJI Is Part Of Today’s Stowe Center Fair
Youth Journalism International is pleased to be part of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center’s Inspiration to Action fair today in Hartford, Conn.We look forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones, as well as hearing the stories of the young winners of the Student Stowe Prize. If you are at the fair, be sure to say hello! TweetShare#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;} … Read entire article »
Filed under: Connecticut, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hartford, Inspiration to Action Fair, Stowe Center, Student Stowe Prize
24 Hours With Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Here is a video news report from Youth Journalism International Senior Reporter Mary Majerus-Collins and Reporter Yelena Samofalova about this week’s 24-Hour Reading of Uncle Tom’s Cabin at the Harriett Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford, Connecticut. TweetShare#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;} … Read entire article »
Filed under: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hartford, Mary Majerus-Collins, Uncle Tom's Cabin, video, Yelena Samofalova, Youth Journalism International
24 Hours With Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Here is a video news report from Youth Journalism International Senior Reporter Mary Majerus-Collins and Reporter Yelena Samofalova about this week’s 24-Hour Reading of Uncle Tom’s Cabin at the Harriett Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford, Connecticut. TweetShare#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;} … Read entire article »
Filed under: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hartford, Mary Majerus-Collins, Uncle Tom's Cabin, video, Yelena Samofalova, Youth Journalism International
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