From a youth detention facility in Akron, Ohio, on Monday to the ABA’s Law-Related Education Conference at the Atlanta Ritz Carlton on Friday — with a memorable and meaningful stop at Kent State University for the Ohio Scholastic Media Association conference in the middle (for a more complete recap of our trip to KSU, please take a few minutes to browse through the library of the beautiful photos by John Bowen) — it’s been another week to remember on the Tinker Tour bus.
Here again, is our pictorial Week in Review.
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- Gabby the Tinker Tour bus settles in for the long weekend in the backyard of former Student Press Law Center Director Mark Goodman’s neighbors in Akron, Ohio, Sept. 27.
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- A beautiful Saturday night Tinker Tour celebration in former Student Press Law Center Executive Director Mark Goodman (far left) and Norman Mallard’s (far right) Akron, Ohio, backyard Sept. 27. John Bowen, Candace Bowen and Mary Beth Tinker toast Gabby the Tinker Tour Bus in the background.
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- Mary Beth Tinker speaks to students at the Summit County Adolescent Detention Center in Akron, Ohio, during a Sept. 30 stop on the Tinker Tour. Akron, OH
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- Detention room at the Summit County Adolescent Detention Center in Akron, Ohio.
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- Computer room used by student detainees at the Summit County Adolescent Detention Center in Akron, Ohio.
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- Summit County Adolescent Detention Center, Akron, Ohio.
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- John Bowen takes photos during the Tinker Tour’s talk to students and teachers attending the Ohio Scholastic Media Association’s Oct. 1 conference at Kent State University.
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- Students ask questions of Mary Beth Tinker and Mike Hiestand during the Tinker Tour’s Oct. 1 stop at Kent State University.
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- The Tinker Tour stopped at Kent State University on Oct. 1 as part of their national free speech and civics education tour
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- Display at Kent State University’s May 4 Visitors Center Exhibit allows guests to find their Vietnam draft lottery number.
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- Display at at Kent State University’s May 4 Visitors Center Exhibit visited by the Tinker Tour Oct. 1 during their national free speech/press and civics education bus tour.
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- Mary Beth Tinker visits Kent State University’s May 4 Visitors Center Exhibit during a stop on the Tinker Tour Oct. 1.
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- Display at Kent State University’s May 4 Visitors Center Exhibit visited by the Tinker Tour Oct. 1 during their national free speech/press and civics education bus tour.
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- Display at at Kent State University’s May 4 Visitors Center Exhibit visited by the Tinker Tour Oct. 1 during their national free speech/press and civics education bus tour.
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- Mary Beth Tinker talks to students during the Tinker Tour’s national free speech/press and civics education bus tour.
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- Students at Walnut Hill High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, file into auditorium during the Tinker Tour’s national free speech/press and civics education bus tour Oct. 2.
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- Student journalists with Walnut Hills High School newspaper, The Chatterbox, meet with Mike Hiestand and Mary Beth Tinker of the Tinker Tour Oct. 2
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- Mike Hiestand of the Tinker Tour works out of his temporary office at Tennessee’s Norris Dam State Park Oct. 3
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- Gabby the Tinker Tour bus leaving Norris Dam State Park in Tennessee Oct. 3 after night of camping.
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- Gabby the Tinker Tour bus checking into the Atlanta Ritz Carlton Oct. 3 during Tinker Tour’s stop at the American Bar Association’s Law-Related Education Conference.
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- Mary Beth Tinker outside the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta Oct. 3. The church, part of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Historical Site, was closed due to the government shutdown.
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- Civics educators at the American Bar Association’s Law-Related Education conference in Atlanta have armbands signed by Mary Beth Tinker Oct. 4
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- “Gabby Groupy” civics educators at the American Bar Association’s Law-Related Education Conference in Atlanta show some love to the Tinker Tour Oct. 4
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- Gabby the Tinker Tour bus gets ready to leave Wildwood County Park in Georgia Oct. 6 after an overnight stay.
Miles traveled this week: 1,011
Miles traveled on Tinker Tour so far: 1,995
(Does not include Mike’s 2,989 mile trip from Ferndale, WA, to deliver the Tinker Bus to the Liberty Bell for the tour’s official kickoff Sept. 17.)
Coming Up in Week 4:
Monday: South Carolina Scholastic Press Association Fall Conference, Columbia, SC
Wednesday: Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN
Thursday:
AM: South Park Teen Parenting Program, Louisville, KY
PM: University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Saturday: Mary Beth’s son, Lenny’s Wedding. (Yes, MB is working on wedding plans, amidst everything else….)
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