Author Topic: The Library (Read 2083546 times)

ginny · « **Reply #15560 on:** July 24, 2015, 07:31:52 AM »

The Library

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Do come in from daily chores and spend some time with us.

We look forward to hearing from you, about you and the books you are enjoying (or not).

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Well, that's quite a compliment, Mary Page. Thank you, I appreciate it. The interest I have in British history centers on different eras, so that's why I thought I would improve on it with more information on the Plantegenets, as the descriptions in Wolf Hall left me wondering about some things.

I think it will be great fun to celebrate our life in books, both here online in SeniorLearn, Barbara, and, for these who have not been here long, in their personal lives with books. I'm already thinking about the books that made the most influence on my life! What a great idea tying in with the Elderwriters book that Jean (Mabel) mentioned.

PatH · « **Reply #15561 on:** July 24, 2015, 08:07:39 AM »

If you're going to get into the Plantagenets, Eleanor of Aquitaine is a good place to start, since she was the wife of the first Plantagenet king and mother of the next two, plus being an extremely interesting and colorful person in her own right. It might be outdated now, but a book I enjoyed many years ago is Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings, by Amy Kelly.

MaryPage · « **Reply #15562 on:** July 24, 2015, 09:44:01 AM »

The mere mention of Eleanor of Aquitaine just blows my mind. To THINK that this woman lived the life she did, and in the TWELFTH CENTURY! Nine (9) hundred years ago! Wow!

For one thing, she was Queen of France, and DIVORCED that king and married his chief rival, the King of England! You could not possibly make that up!

And the mother of TWO KINGS. One our beloved (and he was Gay! And no, I do not misrepresent or gossip here: he himself admitted it to a circle of Bishops at a campfire in Marseilles just prior to sailing off to the Crusades) Richard The Lion Heart of folklore and the other John of Magna Carta (England will not allow another named John to sit on their throne). She traveled the known world. She was indomitable, courageous beyond any man, and centuries ahead of her time. Oh, I could go on and on and on.

Steph · « **Reply #15563 on:** July 24, 2015, 10:30:03 AM »

I loved the Costain book and all of the others Eleanor of Aquitain was a truly remarkable woman.. and of course her Richard was one of my favorite characters, he simply did not want to be a King, He wanted to fight and set things right..

MaryPage · « **Reply #15564 on:** July 24, 2015, 12:32:56 PM »

I seem to recall he never learned to speak English!

ginny · « **Reply #15565 on:** July 24, 2015, 06:32:57 PM »

Thank you all. I look forward to learning more about her. We read about her in one of our book discussions, I can't recall which one, thanks for all the recommendations for books and films to watch on the subject.

I have a recommendation for you all, too.

Run, don't walk, to your nearest theater and see Mr. Holmes with Ian McKellan. Maybe twice.

I never saw anything like it, or his performance, ever.

Oscar, Oscar, Oscar! (... to quote the Red Nose Day Parody of Downton Abbey.) Bravo, Ian McKellan! Everybody in the theater was stunned. Beautiful film, incredible acting.

No car chases, no shooting, no spies, no terror, no offensive language, nothing but a quiet little film. Oscar!

mabel1015j · « **Reply #15566 on:** July 24, 2015, 08:58:06 PM »

Oh yes! Eleanor of Aquitaine! Everyone should read about her, fiction or non-fiction! One of my favorite people in history. I say ditto to Pat's suggestion of Amy Kelly's "E and the Four Kings", but I also recommend Ellen Jones' "Beloved Enemy", and Alison Weir's "Captive Queen". I would recommend them as listed 1,2,3.

BTW - the Personal Legacy Writing group (based on Elderwriters: Celebrate Your Life) that I'm facilitating started at the library 3 weeks ago. There are 7 people which is just perfect so that everyone gets to read their own work, and/or comment on other's writing - no critiques, just positive, or "I identify" comments. They had an assignment last week to write ashort narrative about someone they admire. I suggested they try a poem for next week. Also writing a preliminary Table of Contents helps one focus, because you will have far more ideas than you can use. One woman who has had a fascinating life starting with growing up in occupied Casablanca, has at least three binders of newspaper articles, pictures and stories written to her grandchildren. It's been good fun.

And oh, yes, I just watched Woman in Gold! So good.
Jean

Steph · « **Reply #15567 on:** July 25, 2015, 09:00:24 AM »

I really want to see the Holmes movie, but up here in Franklin, they do shoot em ups and cartoons. sigh.

ginny · « **Reply #15568 on:** July 25, 2015, 11:47:09 AM »

Well it just opened here yesterday, maybe it will come yet.

I am quite jealous of those of you in the DC area because of a new exhibition thru October 4 (according to Time Magazine) at the National Gallery of Art. It's on Gustave Gaillebotte's works, two of which are shown here:

http://time.com/3960529/review-gustave-caillebotte-at-the-national-gallery/

The Wikipedia article on him has some more of the spectacular pieces he's done, I love the winter trees

and the gardeners:

(All of these apparently public domain as listed on Wikipedia).

I don't know if all of those pieces will be assembled in this new exhibit but I am totally jealous of those of you who could see it, should you wish to.

Steph · « **Reply #15569 on:** July 26, 2015, 08:49:07 AM »

Oh me, so am I.. I love Washington and we used to go every once in a while, but even though I can take the train from Orlando, the idea of being alone, might not be the smartest move I ever made.. Maybe we need another meet and greet. Have not had one in a long time.

MaryPage · « **Reply #15570 on:** July 26, 2015, 11:26:44 AM »

Most of my long lifetime has been spent living in the Maryland or Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., and it was for years and years my downtown. Unfortunately, the changes are immense. The wonderful department stores and shops once to be found only on F Street, Northwest, are long gone. First, they migrated to suburban shopping strips, then huge malls, then disappeared to be replaced by other names and other brands. No more Garfinckel's, Woodies, Hecht's, Kahn's, Lansburgh's or Jelleff's. Anyone besides me still alive to remember those? F Street was a winter wonderland at Christmas, with the windows marvels of make believe. My childhood allowed me to board a bus out in Chevy Chase and head down on my own to see all of this and have lunch in Woodies tea room, carefully picking out gifts for a list of family members. That world does not exist any longer.
As for the public monuments, museums and galleries; I have lived long enough to remember when many of them were dedicated and opened for the first time! No, NOT the Washington monument! ( My family used to love telling how I, at aged four, told of having gone up in the "moneymint" one day. ) But I remember going to a private invitation pre-opening and appreciation party for the "Mellon Gallery," which we now know as the National Gallery of Art. I was something like thirteen at the time. You cannot imagine the frisson of horror I feel when I hear that, say, the FBI building is crumbling and needs to be replaced and I can remember when they moved in with great pride and hoopla regarding this wonderful and supposedly permanent replacement for their previous quarters! Happens to me ALL THE TIME!

Yes, I used to haunt the various galleries, small and large, to enjoy the treasures displayed there. Now the traffic between here and there is, for the motion-sensitive body old age has gifted me with, an emotional deterrent equivalent to the thought of the six hundred galloping full speed into the Valley of Death; I just cannot handle it, and so I don't go any longer. I, who once upon a time loved nothing more than setting off by train, plane, ship, bus, automobile or bicycle Sad, so very sad, but also very final.

Steph · « **Reply #15571 on:** July 27, 2015, 08:43:02 AM »

Lost the whole ddarnned message.. I was just remarking that although physically I can deal with Washington.. hmm, not sure that I want to be alone. Tim and I were last there in 2008 and we noted that once the sun goes down, it gets crazy. Chinatown had a number of bums already flaked out in the storefronts, etc and even the Smithsonian area had a lot of not quite people checking the benches.. I had him with me and even then we did a lot of cabs to get to favorite dinner places.

Steph · « **Reply #15572 on:** July 27, 2015, 08:43:37 AM »

nnd OH Yes,,, I loved Woodies and got a good many clothes there when a teen.

FlaJean · « **Reply #15573 on:** July 27, 2015, 01:02:00 PM »

I loved Woodies (Woodward and Lothrup). My daughter worked in the Chinaware Dept. part time when she was going to Montgomery College. We used to get the most delicious omelettes in their cafe. I was disappointed to hear it had closed in 1995 although we didn't live up there anymore. Down here in Florida we had a wonderful department store called Burdines. Macy bought it out and it has never been the same. Such is (dubious) progress.

BarbStAubrey · « **Reply #15574 on:** July 27, 2015, 01:26:34 PM »

Its been years and years since we have seen the wonders of the old grand department stores - the Christmas decorations and the service and the specialness that was a grand experience - it has been gone now for years - remember when the Day after Thanksgiving was not a day for middle of the night and early morning bargains but rather a wonderful day to bring the children to see the glories of the Department store. We used to drive from Lexington to Louisville just to have that experience the day after Thanksgiving since there were no big Department stores in Lexington.

ginny · « **Reply #15575 on:** July 27, 2015, 01:39:46 PM »

Oh YES, the stores at holiday time, Strawbridges, Lits, Gimbels and the king of them all in Philadelphia: Wanamakers.

Sometimes I wonder if those glories are in my mind, kind of embellished. After all, I was a child. How many times have we gone back and what seemed fantastic looks small and not so great. Well Wanamakers was not an illusion. Wanamakers was a giant department store in downtown Philadelphia with a giant atrium showing many stories and a pipe organ which still works. You can sit on the balcony today opposite it and get a sandwich and watch them perform a concert at lunch time and throughout the day, and sometimes they did a light show, too. My mother and I had many a pleasant visit there.

Wanamakers is gone but now Macy's has the building. To the credit of those stores which took it over, including Lord & Taylor, the organ is intact and due to the Friends of the Wanamaker organ, the organ is restored and plays wonderfully.

Here it is in 2010, a flash mob of customers singing the Hallelujah Chorus. Watch the camera pan over the old store which also features a gigantic bronze eagle on the main floor. "Meet me at the eagle" was a common phrase then.

Somethings really WERE as we remember them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S0dn7tqkBg

ginny · « **Reply #15576 on:** July 27, 2015, 01:56:02 PM »

Here is the main floor of Macy's in Philadelphia, showing the Eagle. You can imagine what this looks like at Christmas, to adults AND children.

BarbStAubrey · « **Reply #15577 on:** July 27, 2015, 02:07:37 PM »

Oh my - wonderful - when we had Selfridges and forgot the name of the other series that featured the Department stores in London on PBS I could almost smell the perfume department that you walked into and how each column that were the bones of the building was made into a platform for decoration and the elevators that had attendants and the hush quiet when you walked into the men's department and then all the shine and light reflection in the China Crystal department with lunchrooms in more than one location it was as good as today going to an upper dollar resort only with more candy for the eye than any resort.

MaryPage · « **Reply #15578 on:** July 27, 2015, 02:34:21 PM »

Speaking of Woodies, and yes that was our nickname for Woodward & Lothrop, do you remember the models they had in the tea room at lunchtime? About once a month or so, they would be High School teenagers from the various area schools. It was QUITE an honor to be named to Woodies "fashion board," and each high school would have their faculty name one Junior near the end of her school year and she would serve until the following late spring. Two of my daughters made that teen board, and I was very proud of that. And so I had yet another excuse to visit the tea room! Woodies had a rum toffee sundae that was to die for, and I've never, ever run into it anywhere else. A tuna sandwich, iced tea and that sundae were my invariable order.

mabel1015j · « **Reply #15579 on:** July 27, 2015, 02:35:52 PM »

Re: flash mob at "Wannamakers".......the last time I was there my dgt and I went for the Christmas Light show when - I think - Lord and Taylor owned it. My dgt was in college, so it was probably 1990 - give or take. It really is so beautiful, altho I haven't been in it since Macy's took over, but was very pleased that they saved the organ. I love the camera man on the ledge of the dome window.

I wonder if the singers included the Mendelssohn Club or The Philadelphia Singers. The M Club sings classical music, I have sev'l friends who have sung with them - difficult to get into, auditions,etc. There performances are great. PS do more contemporary music.

Speaking of things from years past.......I was cleaning out my emails and bookmarks and came across this article from Next Avenue.

http://www.nextavenue.org/rereading-favorite-books/

I seldom reread books, but it is true that our perspective surely changes. Our library book club is reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn for August, I am curious to see what I think of it now.

jean

MaryPage · « **Reply #15580 on:** July 27, 2015, 03:43:36 PM »

Oh, I do remember that book, and the movie and all. Peggy Ann Garner played the girl. I was just barely into my teens when I read the book and mid teens when I saw the movie.

Steph · « **Reply #15581 on:** July 28, 2015, 07:57:26 AM »

Tree is and always has been a favorite book of mine and I looked up all her others and hunted them down. None as popular as Tree, but still good.
Please anyone on Facebook, who also is long term.. I got a friend request this am from Lorraine Berkholz.. She was using the tag Sexy Sixty in Senior Net.. She died last year. so there is no way this is anything but a scam..
We had a long long drive for the big department stores. Used to go to Wilmington (60) minutes and the later go to D.C. since My Mom and Aunts loved Woodies and we all went a couple of times a year.

MaryPage · « **Reply #15582 on:** July 28, 2015, 09:04:12 AM »

I think in the long run Woodies spread itself too thin, having a store in every Maryland and Virginia suburban mall. We had a huge one here in Annapolis. I think it has been gone for over ten, maybe 15 years or more now. So sad. The original had one of the best bookstores in town, too. I bought just one whole heck of a lot of books there, especially the twenty-five cent Modern Library series of the classics; remember those? Hardbacks, they were! As I remember, no dust jackets, but very handsome solid colors. Everything we were all supposed to read to become properly educated was available in that format; or nearly so, for sure. I think it still exists, but has changed enormously.

ginny · « **Reply #15583 on:** July 28, 2015, 02:10:46 PM »

Jean, I don't know who those singers were, but whoever they were boy they can sing, can't they? Wow.

Let us know how A Tree Grows in Brooklyn seems to you now. That one, and Marjorie Morningstar I once thought were the ne plus ultra of books.

The last time I went back, I was so pleased to see the organ still playing and the eagle in what was then Lord & Taylor. I don't remember the date. I drove downtown and parked, nothing I did as a child, we always took the subway. There was a huge Barnes and Noble almost right next door, which I went in, which was full on the top floors with homeless in the easy chairs.

I could not get over parking in central Philly. I had lunch on the little balcony restaurant overlooking the organ and yes it played at lunch and did the lights, and I taped it, and I swear the waitress was the same one as she had been 60 years ago. I am sure that could not be right. And the food was the same, just not 60 years older.

Now if they would just bring back the Automat, (and Moorestown's creme doughnuts, I have never had anything like them anywhere), I could drown in nostalgia a bit longer.

Have you all seen those sushi restaurants in the airports? You sit in your seat and have the food on tracks which go by you and you pick off what you want, it's not all sushi, some of it is other stuff. Every time I see it I think of the Automat which had the little windows and you put in a nickel and pulled out your choice of food.

Oh don't get me started on Philly Memories.

Hilary Mantel in Wolf Hall yesterday had a lovely thing on what IS it about childhood memories and I thought I would never forget it, but I didn't mark it and it's gone. I hate to see this book end, actually. A perfect set of summer books.

MaryPage · « **Reply #15584 on:** July 28, 2015, 02:36:20 PM »

Back in the heyday of F Street, N.W. in Washington, DC there was a large donut shop there right in the center of things called the Mayflower Donut Shop. It was extremely popular with our boys during World War II. They had a motto painted on large white tiles that went all around the walls: "As you ramble on through life, Brother, Whatever be your goal, Keep your eye upon the doughnut and not upon the hole!"

BarbStAubrey · « **Reply #15585 on:** July 28, 2015, 03:22:30 PM »

You sit in your seat and have the food on tracks which go by you and you pick off what you want, it's not all sushi, some of it is other stuff. Ginny that is Dim Sum - available in most authentic Chinese Restaurants - here it is served for Sunday Brunch but there are a few restaurants in town that serve Dim Sum all the time - usually folks sit at rather large circular tables and strange to me was that sweets that we would consider desert is eaten as a choice equal with what we would consider salty or main course type fish and meat servings.

Each individual serving choice made at the table is punched into a table or individual ticket - next time your in a place like B&N or even take a look on line in Amazon a book of Dim Sum to see the various dishes that include recipe but cooking Chinese usually takes being near a Chinese grocery store since their ingredients of even soy sauce are different than ours.

mabel1015j · « **Reply #15586 on:** July 28, 2015, 05:24:38 PM »

Ginny - when i reread Marjorie Morningstar in my sixties, i was so disappointed at how schmaltzy it seemed to me. Reality over 40 extra years of living taught me that it was way too romantic and optimistic.

Was there a Friendlys on Main St when you lived here? Well, it's closed! First Peter Pan, now Friendlys, there's hardly a reason for me to go up there any more. I do stop at Ralph's Meat Market on the corner of Church and Main St every once in a while.

Jean

ginny · « **Reply #15587 on:** July 28, 2015, 06:15:56 PM »

That's cute, Mary Page.

Barbara, no it's apparently Japanese, I looked up one of the airports and it's called yo sushi. And it has steel tracks and the plates go by on tracks, but as I look at their menu it's not half as interesting as dim sum was, so if I ever see a dim sum, I might go in there.

I just never really got in the habit of sushi.

Jean, I want to say I don't remember Friendly's, but there's something about that name that seems kind of familiar? We all went to Matlack's. That is, Everybody went to Matlack's. It was out a bit. I never liked it. But Everybody else did, and Everybody went to Matlack's ---that was the place. It's also gone now, something about highway construction.

There was also a little place on Main Street down toward the Trinity Church, where the road went to the high school.... it was in the row of stores on Main Street and it had ice cream sodas with a cherry on the straw, and egg creams, and we kind of liked to go in there.

jane · « **Reply #15588 on:** July 28, 2015, 06:36:55 PM »

We had some Friendly's here in the midwest, but they're all been gone for quite a few years now.

I'm amazed now to see things come full circle in the "mall" scene. I remember when all the "out of the city" stores were in what was called "strip malls"...shops next to each other, but out in the open.

Then they spent $$$ to enclose some of the larger ones or built large "indoor" ones where you were out of the weather. Now, there are a lot of the old "strip" malls coming back around our larger cities.

MaryPage · « **Reply #15589 on:** July 28, 2015, 07:23:20 PM »

We still have Friendly's here, and their ice cream brand is sold in a lot of our grocery chains.

BarbStAubrey · « **Reply #15590 on:** July 28, 2015, 08:12:45 PM »

Aha Japanese - we do not have a large Japanese culture here so that is a new one for me - and not familiar with Japanese culinary either.

Only a month before school starts again - I have not gone swimming one time - need to do that in the next few days... nothing, absolutely nothing on TV except more war and mayhem - I've a pile of books and just cannot get into anything - I feel like I need a change of some kind and do not even know what change would be satisfying.

Steph · « **Reply #15591 on:** July 29, 2015, 09:05:05 AM »

I love dim sum and years ago in Boston, we would go in on a weekend day to a large Dim Sum place.They did regular Chinese food downstairs and the upstairs was dim sum..They rolled things around on large carts and stopped at your table. The waiters were terrible snobs and constantly would say, you no Chinese, you don't eat chicken feet and I would get stubborn and say.. Oh yes I do.. The plates were the priced items, You kept all your plates and when you signale enough, the waiter came around counter the size and type of plates and gave you a bill... Ohh I do so love them,,,but they seem to only be in large cities with a large oriental population.
I loved going to Philadelphia when a young teen and going to H&H.. so neat to open the doors.

PatH · « **Reply #15592 on:** July 29, 2015, 09:05:32 AM »

MaryPage, I'm a DC native, and I did all those things too, except no private openings. I felt the Mellon Gallery was my personal space. I never carried out my secret wish to slide down the bannisters, though. Good thing--it would have been lethal. They're wide, smooth marble, with nothing to stop you at the bottom of the long, majestic staircases.

You missed something good in Woodies' tea room, though, by not varying your dessert. Their chocolate chip cookies were amazing. They were almost spherical, and were roughly 1/3 a rich, buttery dough (properly cooked through, too), 1/3 chocolate chips, and 1/3 pecans.

Did you ever eat lunch at Reeves? It was on F street, a block before woodies coming from the bus stop--all dark wood, with a lunch counter and some tables. You could get a genteel lunch of sandwiches, salad, or the like, but the attraction was their pies, especially the strawberry pie.

JoanK and I were allowed to go downtown by ourselves when we were no older than the two children whose parents recently got in big trouble for letting them walk home by themselves along a one mile familiar route in Silver Spring.

PatH · « **Reply #15593 on:** July 29, 2015, 09:13:30 AM »

Ginny, at least the first two of those paintings are in the exhibit. Here's the National Gallery's description. If you click on any of the 14 paintings in the slide show, you get an enlargement.

http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/exhibitions/2015/gustave-caillebotte.html?from=home-page

ginny · « **Reply #15594 on:** July 29, 2015, 10:51:41 AM »

Thank you, Pat, that's lovely. I actually got the exhibition catalog in the mail yesterday and I am enjoying it so much because there is commentary under each image. The gardeners are not going to be in the exhibit, apparently they are privately owned, such a shame. The floor planers are, tho.

The catalog makes reference to how many different types of art he took up and refers to some of his work as "flat," having a flat aspect like Edward Hopper, whose work I really love. He and Carpaccio, and the St. Ursula Cycle...I mean, the words fail.

Stephanie, the H&H, I took my sons when they were small to enjoy it and it was gone. I have HEARD they have plans to bring them back. It may be a rumor. What WAS it about those doors? And the mysterious hands which kept putting in the food?

My mother and I would go eat there, too, it was a big deal for me. We'd get our food and sit down. I am not sure if I've told this here, if I have, I apologize. At the time the Homeless or Vagrants as they called them then would come in. They'd get the free hot water, a cup, and come and sit with you at your table, after asking, of course. Then they'd take the free ketchup and salt and make a passable tomato soup, topped off with the free crackers. My mother would chat with them as if they were neighbors. I saw the same thing this summer in Rome. But no free ketchup, they were taking the uneaten plates from the racks faster than the waitress could stack them. Italy is in trouble financially.

Man, Steph, if I had been in that Chinese restaurant I'd have agreed with the waiter, I guarantee you most people who raise chickens would NEVER eat or consider eating a chicken foot, me among them. NOoooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Nor dogs, either.

MaryPage · « **Reply #15595 on:** July 29, 2015, 10:55:05 AM »

Pat, my great grandmother used to take me to Reeves when I was very small. It was the chocolates that made my eyes google! Later, I met friends there for lunch before a movie at the Capital or the Palace. As I recall, they were on Wisconsin Avenue in Georgetown when I was a young wife. Then I lost track. Gifford's in Silver Spring and Bethesda became my temple of delights.
When I was nine, ten, eleven, twelve and visiting my cousins on Kalorama Circle, my uncle would give us each a five dollar bill at breakfast and we would walk down to Connecticut Avenue and take the bus down to Pennsylvania Avenue and then transfer to the trolley car to Glen Echo and spend the day there, spending all but enough to get us home. I think that was a nickel! That was plenty of money for us to ride everything more than once and have a hot dog and soda pop lunch. I always thought the rattlely ride on the trolley over the Palisades was more fun than any ride at the amusement park itself. It would be insanity to send three little girls on their own out into today's world. So sad how our society has changed.

ginny · « **Reply #15596 on:** July 29, 2015, 01:00:24 PM »

Jane, i meant to say the evolution of the strip mall is fascinating, isn't it? I am not sure why they are coming back into fashion.

I personally think that when they made the malls so gigantic in size and high in price they sealed their own doom. That's a lot to pay for a rain free trip to a store.

And besides, there are things in strip malls that you can't get in a megamall. Not to mention the security in some is kind of iffy.

mabel1015j · « **Reply #15597 on:** July 29, 2015, 03:20:44 PM »

I believe the Cherry Hill mall, 3 miles down route 38 from Moorestown was the first enclosed mall in the country. They have enlarged it at least 3 times since the 1960s. I only ever go there to get to an Apple store and then its in to Apple and back out again. I have come to dislike the environment of SO MUCH (merchandise, people, noise, etc) But then i am not and never was a fan of shopping. Just went to one or two favorite clothing stores to get a specific thing.

Those of you who like art and color and especially the impressionists would oribably enjoy a novel I'm reading by Susan Vreeland. It's title is Lisette's Lists. It initially takes place in 1937 in southern France with all the charm that comes with the effusive French - that's not snarky, i really mean that. A newly married couple gets deceptively lured back to the groom's grandfather's village from Paris. The bride is appalled at leaving Paris and at the environment she finds in Roussillon. But she is surprised to find that the grandfather has a small group of impressionistic paintings and as he begins to tell her how he came by them and their discussion of the colors and the light and shade of them, and the subjects and what they mean to him, she gains new respect for the grandfather and his life. BY THE WAY, I'm only a tenth of the way into the book, i think this may become a favorite of mine.

Actually, he has wanted them to come to the village so he can tell them the stories of the paintings.......not unlike the "Personal Legacy writings" I'm facilitating at the library. And, what you are writing here about your memories and experiences are the kind of brief narratives that are suggested for a "personal legacy" document. This is all so serdipitous for me!!!

don't you just love serendipity!?! When some ideas just pop up together and are connected!?!

Back to Lisette.........

Jean

mabel1015j · « **Reply #15598 on:** July 29, 2015, 03:24:38 PM »

It's Lisette's List, just one.

and Vreeland is she of Clara and Mr Tiffany, which i know some of you read and liked.

maryz · « **Reply #15599 on:** July 29, 2015, 04:12:07 PM »

Thanks, jean - just got it for my Kindle.

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