Friday, March 1, 2013

Amalia's Adventures in Nicaragua ...Part 1

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  Since October, granddaughter Amalía and her Mommy and Papi have been living in the quaint, quiet, colonial city of Granada, Nica...
Monday, February 25, 2013

Who Is This Royal Bride?

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 This pretty lady, wearing a tiara and holding flowers, is a small (6 ½ by 9-inch) watercolor that I bought in a box...
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Friday, February 22, 2013

The Teacher Who Inspired a City

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 In yesterday's post I described Edmund Schofield, a kind of renaissance man from Worcester, MA who devoted his life...
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

An Ecstatic Historian and An Inspiring Teacher Who Deserve to Be Remembered

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I never met Edmund Schofield face to face, and I only met him over the telephone six days before he died unexpectedly...
Sunday, February 17, 2013

Amalia's South Beach Valentine's Day

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   Granddaughter Amalia and her parents were back home in swinging South Beach, Miami for the week leading up to Valentine's Day, ...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Let St. Anthony Find Your True Love (A Valentine Day Ritual from Mexico)

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(Back by popular demand! Two years ago, in February of 2011, while I was traveling in Mexico, I posted this story about a ritual and a res...
Monday, February 11, 2013

Rolling Crone and Elizabeth Keckley together in The New York Times On Line

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--> The three verified images of Elizabeth Keckley            Last Thursday I got on a plane for Miami, just missing the bli...
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