Anne's Arts & Activities Blog

 

 

  Learn about the artists and the project here:  http://therollingartroom.blogspot.com/2011/04/sunflowers-1st-3rd-grade.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

  I absolutely adore Lily Rabe so there was no way I was going to miss "Tell Me Your Secrets." She doesn't disappoint as a woman   (Karen/Emma) just entering the Witness Protection Program and starting a new life after being implicated in the murders of nine young women committed   by her boyfriend. In her new location she gets involved in the mysterious disappearances of some young girls, as well as come complicated relationships. When   Mary (played by Amy   Brenneman) learns Karen has been released from prison she hires rapist John (brilliantly played by Hamish Linklater) to find her and get her tell them what happened to her missing daughter Theresa, who Karen's boyfriend -- or maybe Karen? -- may have killed. There's a lot of time-jumping but if you pay attention -- especially to Karen/Emma's hair -- you shouldn't have trouble with it. I could have watched all the entire season in one sitting -- it's just that good -- but after watching tw...

 S'more Cake https://www.facebook.com/John-Williams-European-Pastry-Shop-160736227855

  Seascape Painting Fence Pathway Purchase the Painting here: https://www.amazon.com/Beach-Artwork-Seaside-Wall-Art/dp/B07V2KQV2Q

  This reads more like a novel than a work of non-fiction and kept me turning the pages to see what exciting adventure Aline would be involved in next. Aline Griffith was a small-town girl who wanted to be part of war (WWII) effort, just like her brothers and other young men. She said she was just as patriotic as they were and didn't want to be relegated to the roles women had been forced to play. She was eventually recruited to be a spy in Spain for one of the pre-cursors to the CIA. There, she met famous bullfighters (and even got in the ring once herself), royalty, celebrities, famous designers and jewelers, and some people high up in the Nazi party. She became a valuable asset because she could fit in to all social situations and make her targets feel comfortable. But there was quite a bit of danger involved and she often thought people were following her or that her cover had been blown. One of the people she meets is Luis, with whom she has an on-and-off relationship for a co...

 I picked the Angela Lansbury version because I saw her play Rose in London in 1972.

 

 

  This book popped up on Facebook as available at Audible so I thought I'd give it a try, as I like a good mystery as a bedtime story. I'm glad I did. The story starts with Major Heathcliff Lennox discovering a dead body on his doorstep and a piece of paper with a woman's name on it in his pocket. He's trying to figure out the mysteries involved in this as he goes to his uncle's home to celebrate Christmas. While there he learns his uncle is engaged to the woman whose name the dead man was carrying. Not long after that, she's killed. Lennox then tries to tie all of this together and solve the mysteries, and quickly, because he realizes all the evidence points to him. This was an enjoyable listen -- with lots of humor as well as mystery and suspense -- and I fell in love with Lennox. And his dog.

 

 

 

 

Lawrence Ferlinghetti,   the Beat poet , publisher and founder of San Francisco's beloved City Lights bookstore, has died aged 101. He passed away from lung disease on Monday evening, confirmed the store's vice president and director of marketing and publicity, Stacey Lewis. One of the last surviving members of the Beat Generation, Ferlinghetti played a key role in expanding the literary movement's focus to the West Coast. An online  tribute , posted to City Lights' website on Tuesday, said that Ferlinghetti had been "instrumental in democratizing American literature." Read more here:  https://www.cnn.com/style/article/poet-lawrence-ferlinghetti-death/index.html

 

 

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  Victorian pastries ( almond sponge cake with raspberry and marzipan) $3.00 https://www.facebook.com/John-Williams-European-Pastry-Shop-160736227855

                Ebo Barton, a spoken-word artist from Seattle  BRADFORD, Pa. – While many activities have been canceled by the pandemic this year, the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford’s popular annual One World Cultural Festival will go on celebrating the rich and diverse cultures of the campus just has it has for more than 20 years. This year, however, it will take place online.             Organizers said they never considered canceling the annual festival, which will take place Saturday. There’s even a chance for the public to partake in online concerts, demonstrations and lectures.             “We know that the Cultural Festival has always been popular with the Bradford community,” said festival co-chair Amy Bilezikian, director of student engagement and assessment. “We made sure we found ways that members of the...

 

  Claude Monet - A Woman Reading 1872 Find more information here:  http://art-monet.com/1870_43.html

 

 

 

 

Listen to my interview with Alexis Laundau here: https://media.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/2313/files/2021/02/alexis-landau-those-who-are-saved-final.mp3

 

  Join Pitt-Bradford professor, Orin James, virtually for the program, The Art of Cartooning: A Look at Jackie Ormes. She was the first nationally recognized female African-American cartoonist. This program, delivered via Zoom, will be held on Wednesday, February 24 at 6:30 p.m. To register, please visit http://www.orinjames.com/signupsheet.htm

  Anne of Green Gables Art Print Designed and sold by  annielinnart Purchase the print here:  https://www.redbubble.com/i/art-print/Anne-of-Green-Gables-by-annielinnart/43175806.1G4ZT

 

  Dr. Donald Ulin, associate professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, has edited and annotated a book of letters from a 19th-century Quaker woman living on the Ohio frontier to her family in England, including Mary Howitt, one of the most popular writers of her day.             “Writing Home: A Quaker Immigrant on the Ohio Frontier,” published by Bucknell University Press covers five years of letters from Emma Alderson, ranging from messages of longing for her family written while still docked off Liverpool, England, to descriptions of ante-bellum Cincinnati, where she and her husband settled after a journey by canal to Pittsburgh and a posh steamship trip down the Ohio River.             The letters, Ulin said, describe in depth many of the experiences of immigrants at the time – a two-month voyage by sailing ship, the challenges of winter, first impressions of a new land and people, the trials o...

 

 

  Game Warden Joe Pickett is tasked with guiding social media mogul Steve-2 Price on an elk hunting trip in the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming. Little do they know, Steve-2 is being hunted even before the trip begins. Joe and Steve are left with no way to communicate with the world off the mountain, with no weapons, transportation, food, shelter, or anything they brought with them for the trip. As they are being tracked by the three men who believe Steve-2 has done their family wrong, they must also fight the weather, the terrain, and even a couple of wolverines.  While all of this is going on, Joe's friend (and his oldest daughter's boss) Nate Romanowski is trying to find out who is poaching falcons, and why.  Dark Sky will remind you of all the reasons you love Joe Pickett, and make you love him even more. I'll be interested to find out if the ending of the book is leading to a stand alone Nate Romanowski book. I'd love that. Interview with C.J. Box coming soon.

 

  Purchase the painting here:  https://www.paintingmania.com/paris-winter-183_18308.html