Figures from history come to life with messages for now

[Betsy Voinovich]

Hi everybody,

Since the kids are off school and I don't have to run out and get them I figured I'd post about an event I attended last Friday at Grant School in the second grade. They were doing a history project in which each student chose a different figure from history to study. Each student wrote a report, made posters, and dressed up to portray their character. Then parents visited the "wax museum," approached each historical figure, pressed a button on their hand, and they came to life, to tell us about who they were, and answer questions from their museum visitors.

We got to see Albert Einstein, John F. Kennedy, Frederick Douglas, Rachel Carson, Johnny Appleseed, Henry Ford, Pocahontas, the Wright Brothers (one kid played both of them) Neil Armstrong, Mother Theresa and Florence Nightingale to name a few.

Here is Mother Theresa's message from her home for children in Calcutta, the little girl playing her copied this out for us museum goers.

Since I wish people who were posting inspirational quotes on Facebook would post them here, I'm leading by example, well actually, little 8 year old Mother Theresa is.


People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you.
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight.
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will forget tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough.
Give the world the best you have anyway.

Mother Theresa
(who is Albanian, and much celebrated by our friends and neighbors in Lakewood)



My daughter played Florence Nightingale. One of her quotes is, "How very little can be done under the spirit of fear." Seems like another good one for now.

Betsy Voinovich