Closed in on the Open Road Have you noticed the change? The freedom of the road is becoming a fast fading memory. It is not the same out here anymore; the open road is closing in on me. Where I could once roam alone, I am now being followed by...
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I hope you were able to enjoy Free This Month – I did! Yesterday, we had a strikingly stunning New England day with leaves turning, sun shining, and a perfect 80 degrees. We took advantage of the Free Museum Day, sponsored by the Smithsonian and visited the Sarah Orne Jewett Home and...
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Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur “May you be inscribed (in the Book of Life) for a Happy Year.” “Le shanah tovah tikateiv veteichateim,” Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins at sundown on September 24 and is celebrated through September 26; while the holiest day of the year, for Jews everywhere, Yom Kippur, the Day...
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A Familiar Stranger When I was young, gathering around the television, to watch award shows, was an event. Yes, we would watch Miss America, as well as the Emmys and of course the Oscars, in fact not only would I have Oscar parties, one year, I even stood outside, for too many hours, to...
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Saturday, September 27! Unfortunately, once again, Smithsonian’s Free Museum Day falls on the same days as National Public Lands Day, which is celebrated, by the National Parks, by offering us free admission to all parks – thus you will either have to be very clever in your planning, to enjoy both a park and...
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Happy Birthday National Park Service August 25, 2014, the National Parks are offering free admission to mark the National Park Service Birthday! http://www.nps.gov/findapark/feefreeparks.htm You will not want to miss this opportunity to enjoy one of the many National Parks in our great nation, for free. Be aware of the fact that the...
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Google Ink My father was a plastic surgeon, who on the occasional Sunday evening, brought his work home. We would gather around the living room, popcorn in tow, and watch a slide show of his latest and most interesting cases. There are two instances, which I remember to this very day: The first involved...
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Philadelphia “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a...
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National D-Day Memorial Bedford, Virginia was home to the largest number of casualties, during the heroic and monumental June 6, 1944 landing in France, to liberate Europe from the Nazi war machine. The National D-Day Memorial, in the United States, is thus fittingly situated on 88 acres in the small, quiet town. As the free...
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Nowruz A Very Happy New Year to all of you celebrating Nowruz, the first day of spring, and the start of a New Year on the Persian calendar. In your honor, a few of the splendid Persian treasures housed at the Smithsonian, from the Ancient Luxury Collection of Freer and Sackler. ...
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