Dragons and Dinosaurs

An exhibit at the Creation Museum in Kentucky explores the connection between ancient dragon legends and dinosaurs. Here’s why this is a big deal. If the dragons depicted throughout the world are actually dinosaurs it deals a crushing blow to the theory of evolution, which insists that dinosaurs lived millions of years ago and went…

The Research Project, Week Seventeen, Kentucky Climate Change

The Research Project entries for the states of California and Georgia both dealt with climate change. This week we add a third state to that list. Kelly Spratte-Lennington, a researcher at Transylvania University in Lexington Kentucky, is studying migration patterns of plants and animals caused by warming of the earth’s atmosphere. Her paper explaining the research is…

2013 Des Moines Quilt Show

This was the week of the long-awaited Des Moines Quilt Show. Once again the show did not disappoint. One of the highlights of the show for me was a group of quilts from Caohagan, a tiny island in the Philippines. About 15 years ago a quilter moved to the island and started teaching the natives to quilt.…