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Croton in the snow, January 21, 2012

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A beautiful hand-colored post card of the New Croton Dam (aka the Cornell Dam) which despite what the card says is nowhere near Mt. Kisco.
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A beautiful hand-colored post card of the New Croton Dam (aka the Cornell Dam) which despite what the card says is nowhere near Mt. Kisco.

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My latest blog post on Patch.com, about the 75th anniversary of the Croton Free Library.

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My article for Croton Friends of History was posted today and featured by Patch.com. Page views went through the roof.
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My article for Croton Friends of History was posted today and featured by Patch.com. Page views went through the roof.

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Emma’s Christmas cookies … Yum!
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Emma’s Christmas cookies … Yum!

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Before and after screenshots of the Croton Free Library Twitter page. I’ve redesigned both the Twitter and Facebook pages to tie the branding to the website.

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Xmas in Croton, December 9, 2011. (The house belongs to the Chief of the Fire Department.)
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Xmas in Croton, December 9, 2011. (The house belongs to the Chief of the Fire Department.)

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Both sides of a bookmark I created for the library’s capital campaign.
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Both sides of a bookmark I created for the library’s capital campaign.

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The awards keep coming …

Spot the Dot was selected by School Library Journal as one of the Top 10 Apps for 2011.

So far, Spot has won three prestigious awards and has been nominated for a fourth:

  • School Library Journal Top 10 Apps for 2011
  • Parents’ Choice Silver Award
  • Mom’s Choice Award
  • Nominated for a 2011 Cybils Award, the children’s and young adult bloggers literary awards

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Spot the Dot was featured in an NYTimes.com story today about iPad apps for kids with autism. Although it wasn’t specifically designed for that purpose, as we were creating the app Dave and I did think it would appeal to children with developmental problems.
We’re very proud that it does.
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Spot the Dot was featured in an NYTimes.com story today about iPad apps for kids with autism. Although it wasn’t specifically designed for that purpose, as we were creating the app Dave and I did think it would appeal to children with developmental problems.

We’re very proud that it does.

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My niece Wesleigh’s Day of the Dead art. McAllen, Texas, Thanksgiving 2011.
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My niece Wesleigh’s Day of the Dead art. McAllen, Texas, Thanksgiving 2011.

  • 2 months ago
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Went tramping along the border between the Arboretum and Con Edison with Karen and Fran and saw some beautiful purple fungus and a deer skeleton.

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When I asked Ken Sargeant if he wanted to make a short film about Barry Keegan’s visit to the Arboretum I knew it would be great—but not this great. Ken went to the trouble to shoot some of Theodore Cornu’s art at the Croton Historical Society and a rare 1674 Dutch map we have at the office that’s one of the few visual records showing what Lenape canoes looked like.

[Here’s the backstory of how the Dutch map ended up in Ken’s film. I took the  Wednesday off before the event because there was so much to do to get ready and went to the Arboretum to see Barry working with one of the 4th grade classes. While I was there he told the kids about the huge log canoes the Lenape made to travel up and down the Hudson River. As he held up a miniature replica he said that the reason we know what these canoes look like is that’s there’s an old Dutch map that shows one. I suddenly realized he was talking about Hugo Allard’s rare 1674 map of New England that we have at work.]

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