Reading and Roaming
With the arrival of cooler weather, perhaps you are spending more time indoors, When you get tired of reading or knitting, I have three top-notch television series to recommend. Call the Midwife (PBS) It’s hard to believe that this is the 10th season of Call the Midwife. Early seasons drew extensively from the memoirs of midwife Jennifer Worth. Successive seasons …
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Pope Gregory III designated November 1 as All Saints Day. The evening before was dubbed All Hallows Eve which later became Halloween. Whether you honor saints or celebrate with pumpkins, skeletons, ghosts and candy corn, have a wonderful day! FLIGHT AND SO MUCH MORE Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead I’ll start right off by …
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CURRENT MUSEUM EXHIBITS Surrealism Beyond Borders One of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s current exhibitions brings together Surrealism works of art from around the globe from Egypt to Mexico to Europe. Most of the artists I did not know. I also don’t know that I liked these paintings and objects but they are different, often provocative, and sometimes chilling. …
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NEW BEGINNINGS As the saying goes, you can’t go home again. But you can go visit. We spent a wonderful day in Bethlehem at Lehigh University celebrating the inauguration of Lehigh’s 15th president, Joe Helble. The campus looked lovely, and the ceremony had the requisite pomp prompting misty eyes. The Chief Penguin and I were pleased to see and chat …
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