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June 12, 2015
Pantheon: Ms. Mulligan.
Two weeks ago, London-born actress Carey Hannah Mulligan turned 30. She's already a stage and screen standout internationally, and a national treasure in England. Mulligan was nominated in 2009 for an Oscar as Best Actress based on work she did at 23. She is now making audiences smile, laugh, disapprove, gasp, and fall in love with her--together with her three fictional 19th century suitors--in yet another new film version of Thomas Hardy's 1874 novel Far From The Madding Crowd. His fourth novel, this is probably Hardy's best story, and the work that made him famous. If you haven't read it, you're an asshole. Just kidding and making sure you're still reading. If you haven't read it, you're missing something. If you were assigned to read it, and actually did read it in high school or college, read it again. It is at once a study of love, adversity and sudden changes beyond our control or skills.
Posted by JD Hull at 11:32 PM | Comments (0)
June 08, 2015
A college roommate's labor of love: Peirce Mill, nearly 200 years in Rock Creek Park.
Above: Peirce Mill in 1918. Issac Peirce, a millwright, built it in either 1820 or 1829. The mill runs again where it started: Tilden Street & Beach Drive, Northwest, in Rock Creek Park, Washington, D.C. Journalist and environmentalist Steven Joyce Dryden helped other locals to restore Peirce Mill. He later wrote about the mill and its history in Peirce Mill: 200 Years in the Nation's Capital (Bergamot 2009), 108 pages. Dryden, a former UPI reporter stationed in Europe, is also author of The Trade Warriors: USTR and the American Crusade for Free Trade.
Posted by JD Hull at 09:51 AM | Comments (0)