Wow. I just got back from visiting Sarah Griffith-Smith's fabulous 1213 class. The students had prepared four poster sessions on research from True Grit. Two of the groups had put together poster sessions on Judge Parker--one complete with small, working gallows. Another group had a wonderful poster on the weapons used in the book, and then a fourth group had a very interesting and unique poster session on fashion and textiles used during the time and clothing mentioned in the book. It turns out that those jeans that Mattie was wearing in the book wouldn't be invented until the 1930s. Hmm.
We've encouraged the group to submit the poster session for research day. I hope they do. We've also stored the posters and hope the students will allow us to show them at various other True Grit events that are coming up. We'll keep you informed.
Way to go, Sarah. Great class with obvious grit. Thanks for inviting me.
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