Margi had a wonderful time at the Alliance Française on Sept 20!
Here a crew of volunteer voyageurs demonstrated their paddling techniques (which were all rather unique!)
Jean Pierre Petit Le Rouge (a red squirrel and the littlest voyageur) introduced himself, and we learned about his challenges traveling 1200 miles with a crew of French Canadian voyageurs, and his horror when they arrived at the trading post and he learned that they had gone all that way to trade for the skins of his brethren!
Paddling a pretend canoe is not as easy as you might think!
The voyageurs and the assembled crowd sang a hearty rendition of Allouette (while trying to keep up their pace)
And we discussed The Village of Scoundrels, a novel based on a real place, a real time, and real people—a group of teens in a village in WWII France who sheltered and smuggled to safety many 100’s, perhaps 1000’s, of Jewish children and teenagers rescued from French concentration camps.
