User:EdK

Personal summary:

EdK is a reading specialist and statistics teacher in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States, a former Landis Valley Project teacher who has met the Belsnickel and who once taught seventh graders the poetry of Seamus Heaney, Robert Frost, and Richard Wilbur in classes conducted in a rustic [http://www.landisvalleymuseum.org/images/tour11.jpg yellow barn]. He has a background degree in English, a graduate degree in reading education, and has completed additional studies in mathematics, statistics education, and accounting. He's interested in bicycling, hiking, astronomy, geography, literacy education, and mathematics education, and also engaged by traditional stories and ballads, history, language history, writing, watershed investigations, and educational applications of technology. His Wikipedia contributions have generally related to the geographic, historic, and cultural landscape of southeastern Pennsylvania and southwestern Puerto Rico, but sometimes stray further.

Some contributions to Wikipedia:

People:  

Moses M. Beachy –

Marguerite de Angeli –

Solomon DeLong –

H. L. Fischer –

Jacob Glatstein –

John A. Hostetler –

Johannes Kelpius –

George Lippard –

Anna Balmer Myers –

Joseph Yoder –

Thomas C. Zimmerman

Places - Watersheds:  

Byberry Creek –

Conestoga River –

Paper Mill Run –

Pennypack Creek –

Pequea Creek –

Poquessing Creek –

Tacony Creek/Frankford Creek –

Wingohocking Creek –

Wissahickon Creek

Places - PR:  

Guánica, Puerto Rico –

Yauco, PR –

Battle of Yauco –

Puerto Rican Campaign

Places - Philadelphia region:  

Logan, Phila. –

Olney, Phila. –

Morrell Park, Phila. –

Mikveh Israel Cemetery –

SCI-Graterford –

Marmora, NJ

Places - Lancaster County:  

Gordonville, Pennsylvania –

Weavertown AM Ch –

Amish Mennonite

Things:  

Sun dog –

Mason-Dixon Line –

Map –

The Three Bears –

Music of Pennsylvania –

Mennonite

Pennsylvania German articles:  

[http://pdc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_M._Beachy Moses M. Beachy] –

[http://pdc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_DeLong Solomon DeLong] –

[http://pdc.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._L._Fischer H. L. Fischer] –

[http://pdc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_C._Zimmerman Thomas C. Zimmerman] –

[http://pdc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordonville%2C_Pennsilfaani Gordonville, PA] –

[http://pdc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wewerschtettel%2C_Pennsilfaani Weavertown, PA]

Quotations

The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It's a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you'll probably take a few.   (Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes)

Know what's weird? Day by day nothing seems to change, but pretty soon everything is different.   (Calvin in Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes)

It's a magical world, Hobbes ol buddy. . . let's go exploring.   (These words from the final panel of Calvin and Hobbes gently suggest the path we may continue to follow.)

Admovere Oculis Distantia Sidera Nostris. Ovid: They brought the distant stars closer to our eyes.

Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage

To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea;

Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage

And make a Northwest Passage to the sea.   Northwest Passage by Stan Rogers

Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað: from the Old English poem The Battle of Maldon (based on battle fought in 991) meaning "Thought shall be the surer, heart the keener, courage shall be the greater, as our strength lessens."

Known Some Call Is Air Am : though these words from House of Leaves appear to be random, the phrase is phonetically equivalent to the Latin expression "Non sum qualis eram," meaning "I am not as I was."

Wyrd bið ful aræd: from the Old English poem The Wanderer, meaning "Fate remains wholly inexorable" or "Destiny is everything." See Wikipedia article Wyrd for more information.