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Perhaps we could stretch it to Georgia O'Keefe.
Lynn

Robert Russell wrote:
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> Daniel:
>  
> Here's a resource about the original Curious George.  At the  Self-Reliance 
> Foundation, we do media and outreach targeting Latino  families.  One type 
> of outreach we have developed is La Pagina Familiar de  la Ciencia (Family 
> Science Page), which features kid-friendly interviews with  scientists, 
> activities to do at home, games, puzzles, etc.  We disseminate  the page to 
> various Spanish-language newspapers across the country.  In  most regions of the 
> country, you will find one or more Spanish-language  papers.  Here in DC, we 
> have eight or nine.  Our family page is  featured weekly on the full back 
> page of El Pregonero, which has a circuation of  about 35,000.
>  
> We have done several pages featuring Curious George, in collaboration with  
> WGBH.  You could "recycle these pages," as appropriate or we could talk  
> with WGBH about doing some new pages.  You could include several pages as  
> part of whatever kind of press kit or resources you provide with the  exhibit.
>  
> We are also interested in developing partnerships with science centers of  
> children's museums who want to feature the page in their community.  One of  
> our new partners is the Arizona Science Center, which works with a local  
> Spanish-language paper to run a combination of the generic features we 
> develop  as well as some local content (e.g., listings of family events at ASC,  
> etc.).  Since we provide the content to the newspapers at no charge, we do  
> not pay for the space and ask the newspapers to run the page weekly or 
> monthly  at no charge as a service to their readers; most papers are happy to do  
> that.
>  
> So the Museum of Science or any other science or any other science center  
> is interested in the Family Science page, please let me know.  I will send  
> you a pdf sample of the page and we can take it from there.
>  
> Bob Russell ("El Doctor Bob")
>  
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> Boston  Children's Museum is preparing to host an exhibit featuring 
> everyone's  favorite monkey, Curious George! We're thinking it would be fun to have 
> a  display of other famous Georges, ideally creative and curious thinkers,  
> scientists, engineers, inventors, etc. 
>
> Who's *your* favorite  George?
>
>
> TIA,
> AD
>
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> Alissa Daniels,  Science Program Manager/Senior Educator
> Boston Children's Museum
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> discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's  funny..."  " --Isaac  
> Asimov
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