Reading and Roaming
EXTREME CLOTHING Costume Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute) The Costume Institute at the Met Museum has new space on the main floor. It’s spacious and easy to locate and a real plus for visitors; the old space was so tucked away it almost required crumbs to navigate to and from. Costume Art is the inaugural exhibition and …
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THEATER: AN AMERICAN CLASSIC Death of a Salesman (Broadway, Winter Garden Theatre) Arthur Miller’s play, Death of a Salesman, was written in 1948 and has been presented in theaters and on television and as a film many times since. I vividly recall seeing Lee J. Cobb in the title role with Mildred Dunnock as his wife Linda in the …
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TRAIN TO CHARLOTTE Earlier this week, we made a short trip to Charlotte to visit some very good friends who formerly lived in Florida. The train station in Cary is bright and modern and a most pleasant place to wait. Amtrak trains to New York and Florida absorbed most of the passengers while we awaited the arrival …
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ART IN BLOOM This is the second year we have gone to Art in Bloom at the art museum in Raleigh. I enjoyed this year’s paired arrangements (flowers with paintings or sculpture) as much or more than last year’s. A few I found too drab or just not interesting, but overall, there was a plethora of showy …
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