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August 26, 2023
Brokaw was right: All life is junior high.
"All life is Junior High." Retired network TV journalist Tom Brokaw said that. He was right. How did they find so many hopelessly tiny human beings to be in Milwaukee at one spot at the same time Wednesday night?
Below: Brokaw with Ethel Kennedy fundraising in 1976.
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August 25, 2023
Barham, Canterbury, Kent, England.
O famous Kent
What country hath this isle that can compare with thee?--Michael Drayton (1563-1631), in Polyolbion
I've been here several times and will return as many times as I can. London lawyer friends live here in this village and civil parish of the City of Canterbury district of Kent, England: a sane and civilized rural way station on the path from Cardiff or London to Paris. Barham is above all ancient, pastoral and undisturbed. Population 1200. It was spelled Bioraham in 799, after Beora, a Saxon chief. The Anglican village church dates to the 1100s and was likely built over a Saxon church which existed at least by 809. Barham is not far from Canterbury--and local legend has it that one of knights who killed Thomas Becket had an estate here.
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Ozark Lit begins here
The Shepherd of the Hills, by Harold Bell Wright, 1907, 1st edition cover
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August 24, 2023
Disraeli on Books.
Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
--Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
"Dizzy"
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August 23, 2023
Doing Amsterdam with Aunt Ruthie and Uncle Bob.
Travel Tip: Special Dutch Travel Note if you are walking the city early one morning with your older but always cheerful Aunt Nina and Uncle Bob from Sioux City, and the three of you decide to start your day with a darn strong cup of Joe: "A coffee shop means a place where cannabis is openly sold and smoked, while only café means a coffee and tea drinking place." Hull McGuire, its founders and about 75% of Choate's class of 1976 recommend The Betty Boop.
The Betty Boop Coffee Shop, first claimed by WAC/WAP? for America in September 1992.
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August 21, 2023
Art of the Old School Lunch.
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August 20, 2023
Caravaggio's madrigal on lost love exists in three originals
Caravaggio, "The Lute Player", c. 1596, Wildenstein Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Italian Baroque master (1571-1610) composed three versions of his madrigal on lost love. In addition to this one (Wildenstein), a second is in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, and a third — which did not come to light until 2007 — is in Badminton House, a large country house in Badminton, Gloucestershire, England.
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