Tag: history
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Pilgrim Stories: Chapters 5 and 6
PILGRIMS audio THE next night the stars looked down upon a strange sight. On the shore of the sea near a large city, a group of Pilgrims waited for the ship which was to carry them to Holland. It grew very late. One by one the lights of the city went out, and all was…
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The Boy’s Life of Edison: Chapters 11 & 12
The Telephone, Motograph, and Microphone It is well known that to Mr. Alexander Graham Bell belongs the credit for transmitting the articulate voice over an electric circuit by talking against a diaphragm placed in front of an electromagnet. But after Mr. Bell brought out the telephone Mr. Edison made some remarkable improvements. In the year…
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Pilgrim Stories chapter: Chapters 9 and 10
ON THE CANAL audio NEXT morning, the pretty blue and white dishes washed, the kettles scoured, and fresh white sand sprinkled on the kitchen floor, Patience took baby Love and went out on the doorstep to watch the boats on the canal. There were many of these boats passing to and fro. Some carried fuel…
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The Story of Mankind: The Greek Cities
We modern people love the sound of the word “big.” We pride ourselves upon the fact that we belong to the “biggest” country in the world and possess the “biggest” navy and grow the “biggest” oranges and potatoes, and we love to live in cities of “millions” of inhabitants and when we are dead, we…
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Great Stories for Little Americans: George Washington and His Hatchet
It was Arbor Day in the Mossy Hill School, Johnny Littlejohn had to speak a piece that had something to do with trees. He thought it would be a good plan to say something about the little cherry tree that Washington spoiled with his hatchet, when he was a little boy. This is what he…
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Great Stories for Little Americans: Daniel Boone’s Daughter and Her Friends
Daniel Boone and his brother picked out a good place in Kentucky to settle. Then they went home to North Carolina. They took with them such things as were curious and valuable. These were the skins of animals they had killed, and no doubt some of the heads and tails. Boone was restless. He had…
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Great Stories for Little Americans: Daniel Boone and His Grapevine Swing
Daniel Boone was the first settler of Kentucky. He knew all about living in the woods. He knew how to hunt the wild animals. He knew how to fight Indians, and how to get away from them. Nearly all the men that came with him to Kentucky the first time were killed. One was eaten…
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Pilgrim’s Stories: Chapters 3 & 4
Chapters 3 and 4 MEETING IN SECRET audio FOR a time all went well, but after a few months King James was told that the people of Scrooby were not going to Scrooby church. Everybody knew they were men and women who worshiped God, so they must have meetings somewhere. One Sabbath morning two strangers…
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Great Stories for Little Americans: Israel Putnam and the Wolf
Israel Putnam was a brave soldier. He fought many battles against the Indians. After that he became a general in the Revolution. But this is a story of his battle with a wolf. It took place when he was a young man, before he was a soldier. Putnam lived in Connecticut. In the woods, there…
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The Boy’s Life of Edison: Chapters 9 & 10
From Poverty to Independence Edison came first to New York in 1868, with his early stock printer, which he tried unsuccessfully to sell. He went back to Boston, and, quite undismayed, got up a duplex telegraph. “Toward the end of my stay in Boston,” he says, “I obtained a loan of money, amounting to eight…