by Joshua Garrison, age 14 In 1736 a group of approximately 180 Scots traveled to Savannah, Georgia, eager to escape English oppression. The Scottish were a proud, clannish people who had fought the English monarchs for years during the violent “Covenanter” wars to gain freedom of...
by Nathan Bowen, age 13 In the remote little town of Nome, Alaska, a tremendous part of the town’s population was suffering from a deadly throat disease due to the lack of proper medicine. The town board concluded that sled dog relay teams were the only possible route to get the badly...
by Maura Stolpe, age 13 Because they didn’t have the cure for a throat disease, many were dying in Alaska. Eventually men decided to use dog teams to deliver the medication. The treacherous journey was challenging with icy snow and frigid winds howling around the travelers. Although the...
by Grace Hopper, age 11 It does not matter a bit what happened this morning until I explain that I am a dog. Not just any dog, for not any dog can write such a dignified, to-the-point essay as this one, certainly not a Pomeranian. They seem much too flighty. But I am a hound of the...
by Abigail Stillwell, age 13 In an idyllic European village during the time of King George IV, there lived two old maids named Persephone and Artemisia. Persephone and Artemisia were soup vendors at their village’s market day. The two old maids had lived together for as long as anyone...
