{"id":5917,"date":"2016-01-19T13:58:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T18:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/?p=5917"},"modified":"2016-01-19T13:58:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T18:58:40","slug":"classics-day-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/classics-day-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Classics Day 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">On Friday, January 15, Will\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">Eberle<\/span>, Lori Pelliccia, Daniel Roe and I brought all 61 Williston Latin students to Mount Holyoke College for Classics Day.\u00a0\u00a0We joined around 300 students from a number of other schools, including Amherst Regional, Lenox, BCD and Academy Hill. Our students had a blast attending workshops, examining\u2014and even handling\u2014the antiquities in the Mount Holyoke Museum, and competing in contests.\u00a0\u00a0 Everyone participated in at least one contest, and everyone had fun.\u00a0\u00a0We are so proud of our prize-winners:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">-Gabe Moon: third place in military art for his amazing shield.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">-Oscar DeFrancis and Nat Markey: third place for their model of the baths at Aquae Sulis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">-Rida Kareem, Molly Zawacki, and Sebi Herrera:\u00a0second\u00a0place for their costumed portrayal of Venus, Psyche and Cupid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">-Anabelle Farnham: second place for her memorized recitation of a poem by Sappho in Greek.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-5917 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/classics-day-2016\/img_2065\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_2065-e1453145726231-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/classics-day-2016\/img_2061\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_2061-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/classics-day-2016\/img_2060\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_2060-e1453145735600-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/classics-day-2016\/img_2058\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_2058-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/classics-day-2016\/img_2045\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_2045-e1453145743389-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/classics-day-2016\/img_2035\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_2035-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/classics-day-2016\/img_2032\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_2032-e1453145751352-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We had so many more prize-worthy entries! \u00a0My personal favorites were Jaden Tanguay&#8217;s extraordinarily realistic spear and Anabelle, Chloe, and Neha as the three Fates: Clotho\/Neha (who spins the thread of life), Lachesis\/Chloe (who measures it) and Atropos\/Anabelle (who cuts the thread and ends life).\u00a0\u00a0I&#8217;ve never seen students make bed-sheets look so authentically like ancient Greek garb! Neha even made her own spindle.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Thanks to all of you who helped us make this day a success and especially to our cheerful, tireless chaperones, Dan and Lori.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Venimus, Vidimus, Vicimus!\u00a0\u00a0(We came, we saw, we conquered!)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Beatrice Cody<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, January 15, Will\u00a0Eberle, Lori Pelliccia, Daniel Roe and I brought all 61 Williston Latin students to Mount Holyoke College for Classics Day.\u00a0\u00a0We joined around 300 students from a number of other schools, including Amherst Regional, Lenox, BCD and Academy Hill. Our students had a blast attending workshops, examining\u2014and even handling\u2014the antiquities in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/classics-day-2016\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Classics Day 2016<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[428,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-trips","category-upcoming-events"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5926,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5917\/revisions\/5926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}