Reading and Roaming
WINTER PARK EXCURSION Florida has been our home for more than three years, but we haven’t explored much beyond our immediate area. Thanks to the prompting of good friends, Alice and Bill, we made a short visit to Winter Park with them. Bill is a consummate organizer and tour guide (and driver!), and we were …
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CULTURE NOTES In addition to the other lectures and cultural events we regularly attend, this year we added Town Hall, the lecture series that benefits the Ringling College Library. Former CIA director John Brennan was the leadoff speaker, and his discussion of intelligence gathering, the United States’ place in the world, and what should be …
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MARVELOUS MUSEUM The name may be bland, but the South Florida Museum in Bradenton is doing big things! The Chief Penguin and I were delighted to be at their groundbreaking this week for a new addition. It’s an education wing with several new classrooms along with the Mosaic Backyard Universe. The classrooms will enable them …
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DIARIES. As someone who has kept journals of one sort or another most of my life, I’m also interested in the diary as a fictional device. Here are a few words about my journaling and notes on two recent novels where diaries are key to the underlying story. My first diary, which I no longer have, …
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