Reading and Roaming
SUMMER READING Last One Out by Jane Harper Last One Out is Australian novelist Jane Harper’s sixth book. It’s a mystery, but one with a slow burn. For the fifth anniversary of her son Sam’s disappearance, Ro Crowley returns from Sydney to the small town of Carralon Ridge for the annual memorial event. She and her husband Griff are …
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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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TULIP TIME Spring in Manhattan usually means a surfeit of tulips. This year is no exception. Despite rain and wind which have beaten down some blooms, we still discovered colorful arrays here and there. In Central Park, in the Jefferson Market Garden, and in the occasional street-side bed. A NIGHT AT THE OPERA Our midweek outing was a …
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MUSIC IN THE PARK Each spring, Chamber Music Raleigh holds one of its concerts in a public park. Last Sunday, we spent a most pleasant two hours in Ritter Park in Cary listening to the American Brass Quintet. The weather was warm, not hot, and metal picnic tables under a canopy provided seating, shading us from the sun. …
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