Today is the 125th birthday of a rebel. Corrie ten Boom and her family stood up, spoke up, and did what other people knew was
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Happy 111th Birthday Samuel Beckett
Today is the 111th birthday of the playwright Samuel Beckett. Waiting for Godot was a big read one summer at Interlochen, it went around my group
Happy 175th Birthday Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Today is the 175th birthday of the artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. I first remember seeing his art in the hallways of my elementary school. I didn’t know
Rear View Mirror – My Week In Review
Over 70 years ago, Charlie Chaplain wrote, directed, produced, and scored a film titled The Great Dictator. Released in 1940, Chaplin’s film advanced
Happy 133rd Birthday Sara Sherman Wiborg Murphy
Today is the 133rd birthday of Sara Sherman Wiborg Murphy, one half of an amazing Jazz Age Lost Generation couple. I think that I first ‘discovered’ Gerald and
Happy 117th Birthday Brassaï
Today is the 117th birthday of the photographer Brassaï. I learned about him while researching some of his contemporaries on their birthdays and became fixated on
Happy 108th Birthday Oskar Schindler
Today is the 108th birthday of of a rebel, a saint and a Righteous Gentile: Oskar Schindler. How do you calculate the number of lives
Happy 124th Birthday Corrie ten Boom
Today is the 124th birthday of a rebel. Corrie ten Boom and her family stood up, spoke up, and did what other people knew was
Happy 110th Birthday Samuel Beckett
Today is the 110th birthday of the playwright Samuel Beckett. Waiting for Godot was a big read one summer at Interlochen, it went around my group
Happy 175th Birthday Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Today is the 175th birthday of the artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. I first remember seeing his art in the hallways of my elementary school. I didn’t know
Happy 116th Birthday Brassaï
Today is the 116th birthday of the photographer Brassaï. I learned about him while researching some of his contemporaries on their birthdays and became fixated on
Happy 109th Birthday Samuel Beckett
Today is the 109th birthday of the playwright Samuel Beckett. Waiting for Godot was a big read one summer at Interlochen, it went around my group
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