After inventing geometry and physics, Greeks invented history—primarily as a way to document their many inventions. Take a stroll through history with today’s Groupon: for $10, you get two tour passes to Oaklands Historic House Museum, plus tea and tea cakes, in Murfreesboro (up to a $20 value). Sprawling across 274 plantation acres, Oaklands Historic House Museum is a nationally registered historic landmark rife with antebellum architecture, antique furnishings, and vestiges of the Civil War. Originally a hall-and-parlor built in the early 1800s, the site blossomed into a mansion over several decades of structural additions. Having played host to battling and camping confederate and union soldiers, the storied haunt underwent a restoration project in 1959. Today, tours of Oaklands Historic House Museum stir pre-battle echoes of distant drum cadences, fluttering flute solos, and intimidating freestyle raps.
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The Groupon Guide to: Children's Literature
Kids read the darndest things. As evidence, here's a quick guide to what's burning up the order forms at this week's Schooltastic Book Fairs:
Identical Twintectives: Not to be confused with The Fraternal Twin Mysteries, this young-detective series chronicles the sleuthing adventures of Bryce and Bryson Sandalhouse and their elderly dog, Master.
Recommended reading: Identical Twintectives: Sundial Mystery at Pumpkin Seed Lake and Identical Twintectives: The Case of the Mismanaged Chicken Franchise.
Pockmarks: Just when you thought author R.J. Stimes had run out of spooky stories to chill the spine after the rest of the body has jumped away from it, he's back with more tales about haunted toupees and sunglasses that are far too big for the human face.
Don't miss: Pockmarks #270: The Monster That Made My Parents Sad About Each Other and Pockmarks #313: A Plasma Donation to Regret.
The League of Extraordinary Baby-Sitting Girls: In the highly anticipated finale of this venerable coming-of-age series about substitute parenting, Tamarynce and the rest of the girls find out the hard way that losing all of the town's babies to a pool shark isn't as easy of a problem to fix as they first thought.
Read it before it's banned: The League of Extraordinary Baby-Sitting Girls: Baby, It's Cold Out Sit.
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