The Making of a POTUS Geek
I was laying in bed one last week, unable to fall asleep, and I thought why not check in on livejournal for a presidential history lesson? I saw Ken's post, asking for us all to post something in the month of June. Immediately I started thinking about the question he asked me. *
sparklediamant which President made you want to be a 
potus_geeks geek? As I fell asleep I was thinking of the popular guys: Lincoln, Washington, the Roosevelts. Who was it? What was it that woke up the history geek in me?
I realized the next day that it wasn't a matter of WHO, but of WHAT. I remembered a book on my book shelf that my dad found a couple of years ago while digging around in my old closet. Arrow Book of Presidents, by Sturges F. Cary (4th edition, printed in 1972).
It wasn't a particular president at all, but this book that was given to me when I was in 3rd or 4th grade. It was my dad's when he was a kid, and my grandma found it at her house along with a couple of other books and gave them to me, as I was quite the avid reader in grade school. I'm willing to bet she didn't think the first book I'd pick up and read was the president book. :) I do remember that I found it so fascinating - the history beast in me and been awoken several years before, before I could even read (it all started with this book that my great grandmother gave to me when I was a baby, which I also still have). I knew the big names, of course, but didn't realize that there'd been so many presidents, or that there were parties OTHER than democratic & republican, or that we'd had a president with as silly of a name as Millard Fillmore. The book is just 95 pages, with a brief history of each president up to Nixon. I remember hearing about President Carter, thinking "When was he? He's not in my book." The less exciting presidents have a short little story, while Lincoln has 4 pages. I read this book several times when I was a kid - I had to soak up everything I could, because I found the books on presidential history in my tiny elementary school library to be lacking! As I got older, I began learning about different things throughout history and became more interested in European history, specifically WWII. I majored in history in college and regularly pour over nearly every history pin I find on Pinterest. :)
Now, how did I come to be a POTUS geek once again? I think the community was in the spotlight a few years back. I saw it and joined, not only because I thought it was time to get back to my roots so to speak, but also for "Fact of the Day." One of my old co-workers and I used to share facts of the day with each other just about every day, and he always had better facts than I did (I expect this is why he didn't last long as a sales rep... when he should have been selling, he was reading inane facts on the internet). ANYWAY through Ken's great blog posts I was able to blow him away with some great presidential facts! :)
sparklediamant which President made you want to be a potus_geeks geek? As I fell asleep I was thinking of the popular guys: Lincoln, Washington, the Roosevelts. Who was it? What was it that woke up the history geek in me?I realized the next day that it wasn't a matter of WHO, but of WHAT. I remembered a book on my book shelf that my dad found a couple of years ago while digging around in my old closet. Arrow Book of Presidents, by Sturges F. Cary (4th edition, printed in 1972).
It wasn't a particular president at all, but this book that was given to me when I was in 3rd or 4th grade. It was my dad's when he was a kid, and my grandma found it at her house along with a couple of other books and gave them to me, as I was quite the avid reader in grade school. I'm willing to bet she didn't think the first book I'd pick up and read was the president book. :) I do remember that I found it so fascinating - the history beast in me and been awoken several years before, before I could even read (it all started with this book that my great grandmother gave to me when I was a baby, which I also still have). I knew the big names, of course, but didn't realize that there'd been so many presidents, or that there were parties OTHER than democratic & republican, or that we'd had a president with as silly of a name as Millard Fillmore. The book is just 95 pages, with a brief history of each president up to Nixon. I remember hearing about President Carter, thinking "When was he? He's not in my book." The less exciting presidents have a short little story, while Lincoln has 4 pages. I read this book several times when I was a kid - I had to soak up everything I could, because I found the books on presidential history in my tiny elementary school library to be lacking! As I got older, I began learning about different things throughout history and became more interested in European history, specifically WWII. I majored in history in college and regularly pour over nearly every history pin I find on Pinterest. :)
Now, how did I come to be a POTUS geek once again? I think the community was in the spotlight a few years back. I saw it and joined, not only because I thought it was time to get back to my roots so to speak, but also for "Fact of the Day." One of my old co-workers and I used to share facts of the day with each other just about every day, and he always had better facts than I did (I expect this is why he didn't last long as a sales rep... when he should have been selling, he was reading inane facts on the internet). ANYWAY through Ken's great blog posts I was able to blow him away with some great presidential facts! :)