Vintage View: A family holiday with a history lesson

Kya deLongchamps suggests some stealth history lessons on those family holidays and days out.

Vintage View: A family holiday with a history lesson
Sat, 02 Jun, 2018 - 01:00

Kya deLongchamps suggests some stealth history lessons on those family holidays and days out.

Inflicting some curated history on the kids is a traditional bit of vengeance to punctuate all that playing pool, stumping for 99s and sitting around at the base of a super-slide.

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