Tidy Tidbits: Watching & Eating

PURE ENTERTAINMENT The Three Musketeers We had almost front row seats for the Asolo Theatre’s action-packed performance of Ken Ludwig’s The Three Musketeers.  The early 17th century was the era of duels and only the slightest of slights could result in being called out.  Thus, there’s plenty of slashing and smashing of swords, leaping, and jumping about, and even …

Tidy Tidbits: Medicine, Crime, Food

READING—FEMALE DOCTORS The Doctors Blackwell by Janice P. Nimura The book’s subtitle:  How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine, aptly captures the mission of Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell.  Born in Bristol, England, into a large family, Elizabeth and Emily emigrated to Cincinnati when they were just eleven and six.  Although not wealthy, their parents prized …