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Hello my dear Amy’s Garden readers! This is Lydia Tyndall. Right now we are on vacation to Virginia. We are visiting Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown. I will be posting updates as we go. Yesterday we flew from Springfield MO to Charlotte NC. Then after a super short layover (I mean running through the airportContinue reading “Virginia trip – Governor’s Palace”

Hello Amy’s Garden readers! My name is Lydia Tyndall, and I am the daughter of Amy herself. Before I jump into my article, I would like to tell you why I am publishing it here.  If you read my mother’s last blog post, you will know all about the Young Writer’s Miscellany. Now that IContinue reading “Books I Have Enjoyed”

Hello my dear Amy’s Garden readers!!! This is Lydia Tyndall once again. Today I am going to tell you about a trip to St. Louis that our family took. On this trip we meet up with Grandpa and Loretta. We began our trip by getting in the car and driving. On the way there, weContinue reading “Our trip to St. Louis!!!!!!!!”

Hello my Dear Amy’s Garden readers! My name is Lydia Tyndall and this is another Miscellany article. James Stagg is my favorite meteorologist and my favorite person involved in D-Day! This article about him is my favorite article that I ever wrote for the Miscellany. I worked very hard on it and am proud ofContinue reading “The weatherman who saved D-Day”

This is Lydia Tyndall and I have another Miscellany article for y’all. ****** Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin was born in 1869 in the town of Pokrovskoye Russia. He married young and had three children, but he was constantly getting drunk and starting fights. After one especially nasty brawl, he was thought to be dead. He turnedContinue reading “Rusputin”

I am Lydia Tyndall and I’ve got another Miscellany article for you. ****** Imagine Iceland at Christmas time during World War II. People want to purchase gifts for their friends and family, but many common gifts have been rationed. One of the few things available is paper. So they decide that books would make aContinue reading “Jolabokaflod”

****** My name is Lydia Tyndall and I have another Miscellany article for y’all. William Shakespere was a playwright who lived in Elizabethan England. His plays have become quite famous but have you ever wondered how and where they were originally performed?    At first Shakespere’s plays were performed at a playhouse in London called theContinue reading “How Shakespeare plays were originally performed”

What’s up y’all? Lydia Tyndall here with another Miscellany article!!! ****** The sixteenth century saw many changes to the church and religion in England. In the year 1500 King Henry VII was the ruler of England. Like all the kings before him he was Catholic, and therefore all his subjects were Catholic as well.  InContinue reading “The Church in sixteenth century England”

Lydia Tyndall here. I’ve got a Miscellany article. ****** For a thousand years the Byzantine Empire, which spread throughout much of the known world, was a powerful, influential domain. The capital Constantinople was its crown jewel. It had smooth roads, palaces, and schools. It was the center of the Eastrn Orthodox Church and had aContinue reading “The end of the Byzantine Empire”

My name is Lydia Tyndall and I have a Miscellany article for y’all!!!!!! ****** s a lover of history I am always on the lookout for new resources to help me learn more. One author I have recently discovered is Genevieve Foster.  Foster believed that the way history was traditionally taught was boring. Many textbooksContinue reading “Genevieve Foster Books”