Ashley the Bear Braves the Cookie Smack-Down
affiliate program Ashley the SATW Traveling Teddy attended her first holiday cookie exchange this weekend, and got to pose with the once and future Cookie Queen, Leslie Laine. Leslie won the cookie smack-down last year, and repeated this year with double chocolate ginger cookies. Cookie competitors are members of the Ladies Discoursive and Digestive Society [...]
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Go West, Young Bear! Ashley in New Mexico
affiliate program Ashley the Traveling Teddy took the advice and headed to the dry, dusty land of New Mexico. She learned a lot about Southwestern art and Native culture, and about cooking with chiles—WOW!! HOT!! She started at Encantado Resort and Spa, and had a fabulous jet-lag massage with Sue Robuck. AHHHH! Ashley with Sue [...]
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Ashley the Traveling Teddy toured the Bluegrass recently, enjoying the turning leaves and learning some new ursine skills. She met students at Berea College, which for more than a century has offered full scholarships to needy Appalachian students in exchange for their work. She helped freshman Madison Carey, busy at her loom making placemats. Ashley [...]
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Ahoy! Ashley Gets Her Sea Paws!
Ashley the Traveling Teddy has taken the helm of several boats recently, and captain and crew all lived to tell about it! Ashley travels for the third-grade class of Meredith Schroeder at St. Joseph Consolidated School in Hamilton, Ohio. The Traveling Teddy program is a geography outreach of the Society of American Travel Writers. This [...]
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Drive-Ins and Dummies for Ashley the Bear
Ashley the SATW Traveling Teddy made a day of it recently at Northern Kentucky museums, even watching a drive-in movie in a 1959 Buick Electra at the Behringer-Crawford Museum in Covington, Ky. Ashley travels for the third-grade class of Meredith Schroeder at St. Joseph’s Consolidated School in Hamilton, Ohio. The Traveling Teddy program is a [...]
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Teddy Walks on the Wild Side in Indiana
By Betsa Marsh The Traveling Teddy’s still catching her breath from ferocious adventures in Indiana–no one told her the state was so wild! Teddy, who will be adopted and named by the third-grade class of Meredith Schroeder this fall, learned to mold liquid glass into a paperweight at the Indianapolis Art Center. It sure was fun, [...]
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Prince Edward Island Teddy-Made for Bears
The Traveling Teddy has been on a fabulous cruise through New England and Canada aboard the ms Maasdam–boy, some wild adventures! On Prince Edward Island, he met Steve Parsons, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, just as he left the ship in Charlottetown. Traveling Teddy globetrots for the third-grade class of Meredith Schroeder at St. Joseph Consolidated [...]
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