Saturday, August 29, 2009

THE GREAT PITA PIE FESTIVAL IN LIA, GREECE

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(Please click on the photos to enlarge) Last week, when we drove up the winding mountain road in northern Greece and arrived at Nick’s nativ...
Sunday, August 23, 2009

ALI PASHA & THE BLOODY HISTORY of IOANNINA

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(Please click on photos to enlarge) On our first evening back in Greece, last week, a stroll down the main street of Ioannina took us past r...
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Monday, July 27, 2009

HAIR in the Park--Forty Years Later

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The Age of Aquarius Re-Visited The first time I saw the rock musical “Hair” in 1968 in London, I had left my job and my boyfriend in Manhatt...
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Sunday, July 19, 2009

OBAMA'S MAMA WAS A TEXTILE ARTIST AND COLLECTOR (LIKE ME!)

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(please click on the photos to enlarge) Reading my weekly Antiques and The Arts newspaper, dated July 17, I came across a small item that th...
Sunday, July 12, 2009

World Largest Crustacean Means Summer in Worcester

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(Click on Buster to make him bigger.) We who live in (or near) Worcester MA, population 170,000, are fiercely loyal, even though big city pa...
Friday, July 3, 2009

Michael Jackson and Art Collecting-- Death Was a Smart Career Move

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Today columnist Liz Smith asked “Will there be no end to this?”—‘This’ being the wall-to-wall coverage of every little Michael Jackson-relat...
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Saturday, June 27, 2009

People, Places and Puppets that Pull Me Back to Greece

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(Please click on the photos to enlarge them) I’ve been traveling to Greece for the past 40 years (and lived there between 1977 and 1982 when...