Grandma Harrington and the Queen's Wardrobe
(Abuelita Harrington y el Vestuario de la Reina)
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Book Details
About the Book
Froebel-Parker's book about paternal and maternal Harrington ancestors is the second book dedicated to his "Ahnentafel." Friedrich and the First Kindergarten dealt with his ancestor, Friedrich Froebel, founder of the first kindergarten. In Grandma Harrington and the Queen's Wardrobe, Froebel-Parker recounts the story of Mary Rogers, Lady Harrington, wife of Queen Elizabeth I’s favorite godson and recipient of many gowns from the queen’s royal wardrobe. He sews the connections between the Harringtons and Tudors into little Robert Harrington’s journey to the Massachusetts Bay Colony as part of the Winthrop Fleet in 1630.
About the Author
Froebel-Parker, educator and director of the Froebel Gallery, Ltd, has had a long career teaching English as Second Language as a New York State certified teacher. He was a Rotary Club (1973-1974) exchange student in Santa Cruz, Bolivia and studied (1977-1978) at the Julius Maximilians Universitaet in Wuerzburg, Germany. He holds an M.A in German Language and Literature as well as an M.S. in Education from the University of New York at Albany, New York. He taught English as part of a British-German educational exchange (1982-1983) at the Marie Curie Oberschule in West Berlin, Germany. Froebel-Parker addressed the Conference of the International Society of Dialectology and Geolinguistics,University of Braga, Braga, Portugal (2006) on Bilingual Issues in the USA.