August

Along about sundown

Mountain Dance and Folk Festival Thrill to the music of the banjos, fiddles, and dulcimers. And listen as the caller sings out the steps for the square dance: \”Wave the ocean, wave the sea, Wave…

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Rocks, Stones, and Petrified Bones

The Iron Age mineral

Safety pins and skyscrapers, scissors and steamships, automobiles and airplanes—none of these things could be made without the mineral called iron. Iron is a metal, like copper and tin and bronze….

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Mathemagic

A moving numbers game

You can play this game by yourself, on the floor or on a table. You need only five playing cards—an ace, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Lay the cards out just as they are shown in the picture at the top of this…

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