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March 14, 2006
Image of the Week: Godspeed on the move
It has been a long time since I've done an image of the week, which I guess means this would be more accurately entiled: "Image of the every once in a while," but it just doesn't flow very well.
This is picture of the Godspeed, a replica of one of the ships that brought settlers to Jamestown in 1607. It is being built at Rockport Marine, in Rockport Maine. The ship came out of doors last week, and was transported by Tom Brownell and his crew through downtown ROckport to the spot where it will be launched in a few days. We have been filming its contruction for more than a year, so this was a big day.
Here's another shot. Videographer Dillard Morrison captures the action as the Godspeed begins its journey.
The ship will be making a port tour up the East Coast this summer. If you want to see what it looked like a year ago, check out the entry from April 4 last year.
Posted by rickbeyer at 07:18 PM | Comments (0)
Audience Feedback
I spoke at the Fenn School the other day. It is a private boy’s school in Concord. I spoke to 8th and 9th graders about history, research, and writing. They were a terrific audience…attentive, well behaved, and full of questions at the end. It was a lot of fun.
Each of the boys had to write a response to the talk, and the school sent me a copy. It's really a pleasure to read unfiltered feedback from people who aren't jus trying to be politce. (They didn't know I would see their comments.) Overall the feedback was quite positive. I was surprised and pleased to find that many of them touched on the writing tips I offered.
Here are a few of my favorite quotes from their comments (which I have to say were quite well written).
“Rick Beyer really changed my view on history. I’m not saying he changed my lifestyle or anything, but the presentation at least tweaked my views a little bit.”
(I wasn’t really trying to change anyone’s lifestyle.)
“There aren’t many people in the world that can get 100, fourteen and fifteen year-old boys to pay undivided attention to them for an hour. Truly, Mr. Beyer is an unbelievable man that will grab the attention of anyone around him when they read, listen, or watch him.”
(The check is in the mail.)
“It was insightful but a little bit boring.”
(Ok, you can’t get reach everybody.)
“He made it on the perfect level for us, not too kiddy so we think he is talking to fourth graders, and not too old so we become board and confused.”
“He made me laugh a lot.”
“He specializes in history, even though he studied a different topic in college.”
(That's OK. Honest.)
“I found The Greatest War Stories Never Told to be well written and I want to purchase it and the other book that he wrote.”
(Yes!)
Posted by rickbeyer at 07:08 PM | Comments (0)