Just my world of dreams, music and thoughts. Author of two books, one a novel of Love stories set in Framingham, Mass, Secrets of the Heart the 2nd book an autobiography of growing up in Framingham, Mass. Small Town America, Framingham My generation was the first teenage generation, that was when the word was coined. Ours was the generation that started cruising through town and to the drive in theater and drive in restaurant. In our area, Ernie Kampersal,from Holliston, drove his bucking car through town, picking up girls. It rose in the air, like a stallion! We went to the soda shops and played the juke boxes. It was a different town, a different time, and it belonged to us!
Laurie Ossman, Ph.D. has been named Director of MuseumAffairs for The Preservation Society of Newport County.
Dr. Ossman is currently a Research Historian for the Smithsonian Institution's forthcoming "History of America in 101 Objects" in Washington D.C. She has previously served as Director of Woodlawn and Frank Lloyd Wright's Pope-Leighey House, Historic Sites of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Alexandria, VA. She has also held curatorial positions at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, and the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum in Florida, and the Maryland Historical Society. Laurie graduated from Brown University, and received her Master's and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.
Green Animals & Kingscote Open This Weekend; Plant Sale at Green Animals
TheNewport Mansions®operating schedule expands this Saturday, with the opening of Kingscote (1841) and Green Animals Topiary Garden (c. 1860) for daily tours. Make time to see one of America's greatest dining rooms at Kingscote, with its Tiffany glass and a unique cork ceiling. And of course, a visit to one of North America's oldest topiary gardens is always a treat!
As an added incentive, our annual plant sale takes place at Green Animals starting at 10 a.m. on Saturday. Find a special gift for Mom or the perfect plant for your garden. Our experts will be on hand too to help you with gardening tips.
Gallery Tour: 20th Century Fashion
Sign up now for a special behind-the-scenes look at our current costume exhibit at Rosecliff,20th Century Fashion. The tour takes place Thursday, May 16 at 11 a.m., led by exhibition consultant Mary Elizabeth Corrigan. Participants will view and discuss pieces by Givenchy, Chanel and Halston, among others, and learn about the history and construction of textiles in the Preservation Society's collection. Admission is $5 for Preservation Society members and $10 for the general public, but space is limited, so register now online forGallery Tour: 20th Century Fashion, or call (401) 847-1000 ext. 154.
Make Plans for the Newport Flower Show
June 21-23
Take an exotic tour of Far Eastern traditions and beauty at the 2013 Newport Flower Show,Jade-Eastern Obsessions, at Rosecliff. Enjoy informative lectures and demonstrations, shopping, exotic outdoor garden displays, and design, horticulture and photography exhibits inspired by the Far East. Kick off Newport's summer season at our Opening Night Party on Friday, June 21 and enjoy a cocktail buffet and entertainment.
The Presenting Sponsor of the Newport Flower Show is Bartlett Tree Experts. Supporting sponsors include National Trust Insurance Services, Northern Trust, Brooks Brothers, Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Southern New England, Atria Senior Living, United Airlines, BankNewport, Porsche of Warwick, and Aardvark Antiques.
Two renowned culinary stars will headline the 8th annual Festival, September 20-22. Food Network "Iron Chef" Alex Guarnaschelli (left) and James Beard Award winner Michel Richard (below) will host cooking demonstrations at the weekend Grand Tastings at Marble House. The weekend will also include the Wine & Rosecliff gala, a Collectible Wine Dinner at The Elms, seminars, book signings, auctions, and exclusive dining opportunities.
The Presenting Sponsor of the
Newport Mansions®Wine & Food Festival isFood & Wine. Additional sponsors include National Trust Insurance Services, Jenn Air Appliances, Alex & Ani, United Airlines, Stella Artois, Dasani, Dave's Fresh Marketplace, Wines of South Africa, Marchesi Antinori and Hyatt Regency Newport.
Accessorize Mom for Mother's Day. These colorful woven bags are fun and stylish. Made with Ata grass, their rich, warm color results from smoking them over a mixture of honey and coconut! Shop for these high quality bags and other accessories for Mom atwww.NewportStyle.net.
In addition the Venetian Ball is Saturday , August 3, to welcome the Venetian paintings back to the Elms. go to Newport Mansions if you want more details...
Headlines of the Week From the Desk of Trudy Coxe
This Week's Highlight of the Collection:
First published in the 1880s, Ladies Home Journal was one of the most popular publications of the 20th century and continues to be printed today. This May, 1891 issue included an article from "Mrs. Vanderbilt's Kitchen," as well as poetry, articles on housekeeping, knitting and crochet patterns, clothing suggestions for women at their school graduations, and editorials on women's issues.
John Tschirch was a good sport during the tribute we paid to him during his final Symposium dinner at The Breakers. Overall, the Symposium was a great success.
Don & Susan Ross, Nancy Wilson Richard Ford, Gene & Lynn Roberts
TC, John Tschirch & David Dangremond Angela Fischer & Mary Riggs
Congratulations to International Council member Nancy Dubuc, who has just been promoted to President and CEO of the A+E Networks. She'll oversee day-to-day operations of the company, which includes the History, Lifetime and A&E channels, as well as 500 employees and about $3.5 billion in annual revenue! Read more about Nancy's amazing career.
Speaking of television, we've been visited in the last two weeks by TV crews from Boston, Providence and Springfield news stations, working on features about our houses. That's Caitlin Emery being interviewed by Channel 10's R.J. Heim in The Elms dining room. We're also working with a producer from Wealth TV to feature a couple of our houses on a new program called "Castles of the Ages," as well as a French documentary filmmaker for a series called "Secrets d'Histoire."
We were so happy this week to see the incredibly supportive editorial in the Providence Journal about our plans for the welcome center at The Breakers. In case you missed it, you can read the ProJo editorial here.
We're also grateful to our friend Evan Smith, CEO of Discover Newport, for his public support. You can read Evan's Letter to the Editor here.
We have secured two amazing, nationally-renowned chefs for our Wine and Food Festival in September. Food Network "Iron Chef" Alex Guarnaschelli (left) and James Beard Award winner Michel Richard will headline the Grand Tastings on September 21 and 22.
Congratulations to Terry Dickinson on his election as Chairman of the Arts & Cultural Alliance of Newport County last night. It's a feather in the cap for both Terry and the PS. The Alliance is the premier organization that promotes and advances arts and culture in the region.
Many thanks to Angela Moore and Nancy Roy for helping to inspire the troops at the Educational Sales Department's kickoff meeting this week. Nancy shared the following quote with our staff which is worth thinking about when we do our jobs: "A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us; we are dependent on him. He is not an interruption to our work;he is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business; he is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him; he is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so." Mahatma Gandhi
The tree that we had to take down outside the children's cottage at The Breakers put up quite a fight. Here's the massive stump being hauled away today. Getting it out of the ground without damaging the adjacent driveway proved to be quite the challenge!
International Council members Richard Guy Wilson and Pauline Metcalf gave great lectures about Ogden Codman and Edith Wharton at a conference held by the Tennis Hall of Fame on Saturday. The Codman rooms at The Breakers were on tour.
Huge week ahead. Green Animals and Kingscote open on Saturday, May 11. May you have a productive week.
Where in the U.S. can you find the the biggest bibliophiles? Online e-tailer Amazon just reached into its mammoth pool of purchasing data to pull out its third annual list of cities in the U.S. where the “most well-read” among us apparently reside.
This is great material...if you need something old/new to spice up your playing...it is just a fantastic song...Carly Simon does it just right too! Her heartbeat is in her songs, have you ever noticed...???
http://youtu.be/yMu8dHdThBQ Looking for a song....this is a beauty from long ago.....there was another recording that was even better than Sarah....I think it was Billie Eckstine....
Like the sound of his accordion ..and of course jo Stafford
Wow is this apropos ..I have it on my order list...It can only be exciting if its by Badacci
Book Description
Release date: April 23, 2013
From David Baldacci--#1 bestselling author and one of the world's most popular, widely read storytellers--comes the most thrilling novel of the year.
THE HIT
Will Robie is a master of killing.
A highly skilled assassin, Robie is the man the U.S. government calls on to eliminate the worst of the worst-enemies of the state, monsters committed to harming untold numbers of innocent victims.
No one else can match Robie's talents as a hitman...no one, except Jessica Reel. A fellow assassin, equally professional and dangerous, Reel is every bit as lethal as Robie. And now, she's gone rogue, turning her gun sights on other members of their agency.
To stop one of their own, the government looks again to Will Robie. His mission: bring in Reel, dead or alive. Only a killer can catch another killer, they tell him.
But as Robie pursues Reel, he quickly finds that there is more to her betrayal than meets the eye. Her attacks on the agency conceal a larger threat, a threat that could send shockwaves through the U.S. government and around the world.
PEGGY NOONAN: Britain Remembers a Great Briton – WSJ
By PEGGY NOONAN- DECLARATIONSApril 18, 2013, 7:37 p.m. ET Mrs. Thatcher is with Wellington and Nelson now. London
The funeral of Margaret Thatcher was beautiful, moving, just right. It had dignity and spirit, and in that respect was just like her. It also contained a surprise that shouldn’t have been a surprise. It was a metaphor for where she stood in the pantheon of successful leaders of the 20th century.
The Right Honourable The Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, LG, OM, FRS—so she was called on the front page of the service program—was a great lady, and the greatest peacetime prime minister of England in the 20th century. She unleashed her nation’s economy, defeated selfish bullies who before her had always emerged victorious, and stood with the pope and the president against Soviet communism. The main project of her career was to advance the cause of human freedom and individual liberty. As David Cameron’s education minister, Michael Gove, noted the other day, she saw economics not as a science but as one of the humanities. It wasn’t about “immutable laws,” it was about “the instincts and values” of human beings, their sense of justice and rightness. She was eloquent, stirring and had tons of guts. And of course she was a woman, the first British prime minister to be so. She made no special pleading in that area and did not claim to represent what we embarrassingly call women’s issues. She was representing England and the issues British citizens faced. She did not ignore her sex and occasionally bopped political men on the head with small, bracing recognitions of their frailty. “The cocks will crow, but it’s the hen that lays the eggs,” she said. She noted that if you want anything said get a man but, if you want something done get a woman. All this she uttered in a proud but mock-stern tone. She was no victim. An oddity of her career is that she was routinely patronized by her inferiors. It seems to have steeled her.
Zuma PressA supporter of Margaret Thatcher holds a banner outside St. Clement Danes church in London.
A supporter told me in London of her frustrations with staff. She said once to her aides: “I don’t need to be told what, I need to be told how.” Meaning I have a vision, you have to tell me how we can implement it. That stayed in my mind. Politics now, in England as well as America, is dominated by politicians who are technicians. They always know how to do it. They just don’t know what to do.
Thatcher’s funeral was striking in that it was not, actually, about her. It was about what she thought it important for the mourners to know. The readings were about the fact of God, the gift of Christ, and the necessity of loving your country and working for its betterment. There were no long eulogies. In a friendly and relatively brief address, the bishop of London lauded her kindness and character. No funeral of an American leader would ever be like that: The dead American would be the star, with God in the position of yet another mourner who’d miss his leadership.
The pageantry, for an American, was most moving. The English as always do this brilliantly but I wonder if they understand—they must, but it’s not something they acknowledge—that when they bring out and put forward their splendor they are telling the world and themselves who they are and have been. Leading the procession into St. Paul’s was the lord mayor of London, in velvet coat, breeches and buckled shoes. On his coat he wore Sir Thomas More’s gold chain of office, taken from him before he was killed in the Tower. Imagine a nation that puts such a man to death, contemplates it, concludes in the end it was wrong, and now proudly displays the saint’s chain at its greatest events. When I saw it I thought of a recent trip to the Vatican. Touring its archives, we were shown one of its proudest possessions: a letter from Galileo.
Things change. Time changes them. Great nations, and institutions, rethink. But only if they’re great.
It mattered that the funeral was in august and splendid St. Paul’s, mattered that Thatcher’s coffin, placed under the great dome, stood directly over the tombs of Nelson and Wellington in the crypts below. (Marcus Binney in the Times said conservatives will note the above; happy to oblige.) This placing of Thatcher with the greats of the past, and the fact that the queen and the crown prince came to her funeral, as they have for no prime minister since Churchill in 1965, served as an antidote to British television coverage surrounding her death.
It was terrible. They could not in any sustained way mark her achievements or even show any particular respect. All they could say was that she was “divisive and controversial,” although sometimes they said “divisive and—well, really divisive.” Anchors reported everything as if from a great distance, with no warmth; they all adopted the cool, analytical look they use when they mean to project distance. But as Tony Blair’s aide Peter Mendelsohn, speaking at the think tank discussion at which Mr. Gove appeared, said, “to decide is to divide.” He was quoting Mr. Blair.
And the more decisive, the more divisive.
In the past week left-wing political groups held death parties, all heavily reported, and threatened to demonstrate at the funeral. The head of the London police seemed to invite them to come. (Less important, but worth mentioning: The White House embarrassed itself by not sending a delegation of high-level current officeholders. Did the British notice? Oh yes. It’s another way they think we’re slipping.)
All this—the media, the left—had the effect of telling people: you’ll look stupid if you speak in support of Thatcher, you’ll look sentimental, old. And it may be dangerous to attend the funeral—there could be riots!
I wonder if certain people pushed this line so hard so that the day after the funeral they could report no one came.
So then, the surprise that was a metaphor.
At the end of the funeral they all marched down the aisle in great procession—the family, the queen, the military pallbearers carrying the casket bearing the Union Jack. The great doors flung open, the pallbearers marched forward, and suddenly from the crowd a great roar. We looked at each other. Demonstrators? No. Listen. They were cheering. They were calling out three great hurrahs as the pallbearers went down the steps. Then long cheers and applause. It was electric.
England came. The people came. Later we would learn they’d stood 30 deep on the sidewalk, that quiet crowds had massed on the Strand and Fleet Street and Ludgate Hill. A man had held up a sign: “But We Loved Her.”
“The end is where we start from.” That is T.S. Eliot, whose “Little Gidding” she loved. When they died, Ronald Reagan, John Paul II, and Margaret Thatcher were old and long past their height of power. Everyone was surprised when Reagan died that crowds engulfed the Capitol; people slept on sidewalks to view him in state. When John Paul died the Vatican was astonished to see millions converge. “Santo Subito.”
And now at the end some came for Thatcher, too.
What all three had in common: No one was with them but the people.
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, rest in peace.
via Britain Remembers a Great Briton – WSJ.com.
We are all in this together, sometimes the use of words helps to change perception....think about this......
We deserve to protect our own safety, is it really gun control, or is it to consider a mass murderer as an enemy of the people an enemy combatant... We know there are reasons people do crazy things, but why feel different about Hitler, than you do for a single man or a few men that kill 3,000 people, or attack a school, or a theater, or a gathering of people listening to a politician.
We need to change our perception... whatever causes mass murder and mayhem, we owe it to our first responders to honor them first, not the killer/s.....We have a new world and a different war....on our own shores....Gun control will not be the answer to this...it is how we perceive it that will help to change it..
When children are taught, mass murderers are committing an act of war against our people, they are considered traitors and enemies of the people, the perception of the act starts to change.
Then , what do I know....it just appears sensible to call it what it is.....
Steve Tyrell
Everyone is talking about Steve Tyrell, hope he comes back to Palm Beach, The Colony Hotel again next winter, we all enjoyed listening to his show...
I found out that I could read the story on my i-pad, once I purchased it on my Kindle. So, I switched over and re read a page. The prose struck me...maybe you will enjoy it to..
"The dawn was bright and blowing. Angels perched unseen on the shrouds and crosstrees. Young men, fated to survive and become old men dying abed a century hence, would forever remember this morn, when an army at dawn made for the open sea in a cause none could yet comprehend. Ashore as the great fleet guided past, dreams of them stepped, like men alive, into the rooms where their loved ones lay sleeping."
A glimpse of great prose writing that flows like poetry to me.
"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does it mean having things that buz...
Brandon Sheline,by day, Brando by night. — One of my favorite examples (may or may not beliterary?) I found from the religious satirical documentary "Religlious" with Bill Maher. During the end of the documentary, several quotes from prominent historical figures flash on the screen and one popped up from John Adams…
Casey Horton,Small Business Owner — Well, let's think about it for a minute. And I may ramble because I am writing as I think. 'First Temptation is Last
You will see some new information and new images being offered for purchase.
When you see a painting you would like to have please call me, Joan,at 772-465-8322, or 772-489-1156., summer and winter. Gallery phone number is 207-244-5918
We are finalizing the list of guest artists who will be showing their paintings and sculpture in the gallery summer 2013. We have a few openings for artists who have not shown in our gallery before. Would you like to recommend an artist?
New Workshops:
Aside from the spectacular workshop planned in the Pyrenees, Phil will again be teaching at Wooden Boat in Brooklin, ME. next August.
This winter he is giving instructions, Monday afternoon in the gallery.
For information, please contact me by e-mail or phone. (772-489-1156 or 207-244-5918 e-mail:philsteelartist@gmail.com
Thanks for taking your time to read about our world of art. We value your patronage and imput..
Affairs for The Preservation Society of Newport County.
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Take an exotic tour of Far Eastern traditions and beauty at the 2013 Newport Flower Show,
Two renowned culinary stars will headline the 8th annual Festival, September 20-22. Food Network "Iron Chef" Alex Guarnaschelli (left) and James Beard Award winner Michel Richard (below) will host cooking demonstrations at the weekend Grand Tastings at Marble House. The weekend will also include the Wine & Rosecliff gala, a Collectible Wine Dinner at The Elms, seminars, book signings, auctions, and exclusive dining opportunities.
The Presenting Sponsor of the
Accessorize Mom for Mother's Day. These colorful woven bags are fun and stylish. Made with Ata grass, their rich, warm color results from smoking them over a mixture of honey and coconut! Shop for these high quality bags and other accessories for Mom at
Speaking of television, we've been visited in the last two weeks by TV crews from Boston, Providence and Springfield news stations, working on features about our houses. That's Caitlin Emery being interviewed by Channel 10's R.J. Heim in The Elms dining room. We're also working with a producer from Wealth TV to feature a couple of our houses on a new program called "Castles of the Ages," as well as a French documentary filmmaker for a series called "Secrets d'Histoire."
We have secured two amazing, nationally-renowned chefs for our Wine and Food Festival in September. Food Network "Iron Chef" Alex Guarnaschelli (left) and James Beard Award winner Michel Richard will headline the Grand Tastings on September 21 and 22.
Congratulations to Terry Dickinson on his election as Chairman of the Arts & Cultural Alliance of Newport County last night. It's a feather in the cap for both Terry and the PS. The Alliance is the premier organization that promotes and advances arts and culture in the region.
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Wow is this apropos ..I have it on my order list...It can only be exciting if its by Badacci
