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The Aura of Mount Rushmore – By S. McBride

 

   My dear friend Erin Carola Knotek, when she heard that our vacation destination was Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, told me that when she took her grandmother, the late Aggie Ford, to the mountain back in 1988 “She was so excited to see it . . . she was so proud . . . you would have thought she was meeting the presidents themselves.”

   Well, now I’ve been there and I know how Aggie Ford must have felt.

   When people asked where we were going on vacation and I answered “Mount Rushmore”, I got a few quizzical looks and at least two “Whys?”  I know it’s not your typical summer trip, it being 1800 miles from Mechanicville across seven states, but hey, I’ve always wanted to see it.  Why not?

   So we went.  Loaded up the little RV we love so well and headed west.

Read the entire article in the July 10th issue of the Express.

 

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Mechanicville 8th Graders Visit D.C. – by S. McBride

 

  The annual 8th grade trip to visit Washington D. C. is always a much-anticipated and exciting time for the young students at Mechanicville Junior/Senior High School.  They get to visit the renowned sites and experience the aura of this magnificent area where so much history has happened and is still  happening today.

   The trip was coordinated by 8th grade math teacher Mara Sweeter.  It took the boys and girls to the Baltimore Aquarium and a Washington Nationals baseball game.  They visited all the major monuments, took a trolley ride and narrated tour of Arlington National Cemetery, toured the Smithsonian Museums and delighted in the sights at the National Zoo.

Read the entire article in the May 22 issue of the Express.