AN “EVOLVING STORY”
by ioannesfrobenius, ©2019, blogging at froebelgalleries
(Aug. 19, 2019) — On Monday 19 August 2019, WGXC (www.wgxc.org) 90.7 FM in the New York Hudson Valley, invited J (Johannes) Froebel-Parker, descendant of the Froebel Family of Thuringia and author of books about Friedrich Froebel (educator) and Anastasia Romanov, along with Anastasia enthusiast, Victoria Signorelli, and Waldorf School educator, Patrice Maynard on The Morning Show to discuss Froebel’s Kindergarten, the influence on Rudolph Steiner’s Waldorf School, and the Romanov connection.
The lively discussion includes the latest about the assertion that Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov survived, the role of various earlier Romanov Grand Duchesses in promoting Froebel educational practices, as well as the similar goals of Froebelian and Waldorfian education.
Not only did Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, later Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, assist Froebel financially, but a later Romanov, Grand Duke Alexei, was also very fond of Froebel’s wooden blocks, part of the Froebel system which had been given to him by a German relative. These are the same blocks which architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, credited with giving him his “first impulse to architecture” when his “little fingers touched the wooden blocks of Froebel.”
Archive is at https://wavefarm.org/archive/h9nwnh; the segment begins at 44:30 and continues until the end of the program.
Froebel-Parker is the author of ANASTASIA AGAIN: The Hidden Secret of the Romanovs (Icebox Publishing, 2018) with a new Expanded Second Edition of the book planned for later this year in an attempt to keep pace with this rapidly evolving story.