My Little Journalist

Have any of you seen the American Girl movie "Kit Kittredge?" It is a wonderful movie and we have loved watching it over and over. It takes place during the Great Depression and it's about Kit's family. Kit writes articles that she tries to have the local paper publish.

Our Emmie is a writer. She spends hours and hours writing. She NEVER plays anything (except UNO) and would rather spend time in her room reading and writing stories than do anything. I take that back - she would rather be outside being a "tomboy" too. She told me the other day that she wanted to be a journalist, just like Kit! This is where you will usually find Emmie when she's home...

Another fun fact about the Kit movie (and the Depression) are the hobo marks they talk about. We looked them up on the internet and Emmie made her own copy. These marks were carved in the fence posts of people's houses and it told other hobos if the people were nice, mean, would feed you, had a mean dog, etc.

Dave's grandma had one of these marks on her fence in Oregon. The men would hop a train and stop close to her house. She was a wonderful lady who would always feed the "hobo's". She wondered how they would always find her house until one day one of the men told her about the mark on her gate.