June 29 – Log Cabin Day

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• nEatn pancakes or waffles with Log Cabin Syrup. (It’s actually reallyn challenging to make good pancakes over a campfire, I think. And In don’t even own a waffle-maker that’s not electric!)

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• nPlayn with Lincoln logs. When you build with these unique “blocks,”n you learn one way that people make log cabins – by notching logsn and then fitting them together. With an actual log cabin, however,n there are always uneven spots that you have to close up withn chinking and daubing. Chinking is pushing small sticks or rocks inton a gap, and daubing is mud that is smeared into the small gaps thatn remain between logs and chinking materials.

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  nDon research on the symbolism of the log cabin in the United States.n What president do you associate with a log cabin? If you saidn “Lincoln,” you are correct – but actually there were sevenn presidents who were born in log cabins! And one president who wasn NOT born in a log cabin, William Henry Harrison, used the symbol ofn a log cabin to mean that he was a “man of the people,” not an rich, elite candidate. It might have worked, since Harrison won then 1840 election when he used the log cabin symbol!

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  nLearnn the first steps of how to build a log cabin from “Get It Done!”: 

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nPart 1  and Part 2. 

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• nJunen holidays

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• nJunen birthdays

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• nHistoricaln anniversaries in June

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• nJulyn holidays

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• nJulyn birthdays

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• nHistoricaln anniversaries in July

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