Reading and Roaming
After an absence of several years, we returned to Philadelphia for a friend’s birthday party. We were blessed with mostly overcast skies and comfortable temperatures—perfect for all the walking we planned to do. We did walk a lot one day, but mostly we gorged on art. In two days, we visited three art museums and …
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SHARKS AND SEAHORSES This week we spent a fascinating morning at the Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium. There is an attractive color brochure with a map. And blue-shirted volunteers were all around and engaged with visitors, particularly at the Contact Cove where you can do a two-finger touch of sea stars and other animals. Also …
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FILM I recommend Far from the Madding Crowd! Beautiful countryside, beautifully filmed, and Carey Mulligan is a lovely Bathsheba, intelligent, definite and almost elfin. And the men—Francis Troy has the required rakish dark hair and eyes, Boldwood (don’t you love Hardy’s choice of names!) is older, but not as sinister seeming as in the novel, …
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Yesterday we visited the Vietnam National Museum of Nature (VNMN) and met with the director, assistant director, and head of the specimen collection department. VNMN is a new museum, having only been founded in 2006. They are state-owned and under the aegis of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology. Within Vietnam, they are one …
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