Count Down to Brown

Each summer I like to participate in a professional development activity that adds to my content knowledge, provides me with an opportunity to "talk" history with fellow colleagues, and reminds me what it is like to be a student.

On Sunday, I check in at Brown University for a week long seminar on "George Washington and the Origins of the American Republic." The seminar is being sponsored by The Gilder-Lehrman Institute and will be conducted by Professor Gordon Wood, a Pulitzer Prize winning author. One of my favorite authors of the time period, Pauline Maier of MIT, will be a guest lecturer. Both Wood and Maier appear in Liberty, the PBS series on the American Revolution.

So it is back to college on Sunday. I am almost done with my assigned reading and I have a bit of packing to do but now it is time to get excited. I was amused by the dorm rules and promise to keep in mind what I tell my own children...."don't do anything you wouldn't want to tell me about."