Reading and Roaming
THE PAST In the 1980’s and 90’s, the Chief Penguin made many trips to Sweden and Denmark for conferences and collaborations with scientific colleagues. Uppsala was one of the places visited most often and Josh, a professor at the university, became both a research partner and a personal friend. In June 1984, we both visited …
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Here are two books I read recently. One is literary fiction by an author I know from previous works. The other is a romance which is clever, humorous, and just fun. The Chief Penguin and I also made our second visit to the botanical garden this week, so I offer a few comments on it …
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THREE RECENT READS In this post, I offer three books I’ve read recently. One is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s conversational inside scoop on the 1960’s as experienced by her and by her spouse, Richard Goodwin, politico, speechwriter, and occasional sounding board for both John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Judith Jones was a book editor who …
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FARNSWORTH ART MUSEUM: PART 2 Three Generations of Wyeths The Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland is a center, along with the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pa., for the artwork of three generations of Wyeths. A former church building houses almost exclusively Wyeth paintings and sculptures, while the contemporary building has a variety of different …
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