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Not Switzerland

  Geneva, NY, sits at the northern end of Seneca Lake, one of the Finger Lakes.  It’s home to the Hobart William and Smith Colleges, many vineyards and some beautiful nineteenth century buildings. I was there because my granddaughter, a … Continue reading →

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Old Lace–No Arsenic

The exhibit, Threads of Power at the Bard Graduate Center on NYC’s upper West Side, closes January 1, 2023 so if you have any interest in lace, get there ASAP. Even if you don’t know a bobbin from a pall, … Continue reading →

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Cherry Blossom Time

Having navigated subways in Hong Kong, Paris, London, and Milan and living in New York City where, despite its many problems, the subway is a way of life, I found the Washington DC metro a complicated, aggravating system.  The so-called … Continue reading →

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Iolanthe, The Mikado and More

Gilbert & Sullivan fan(atic) that I am, over the weekend I took my almost-sixteen-year-old granddaughter to Iolanthe. She wanted to see The Mikado which I was all for but the G&S company (that shall be nameless) had pulled that production … Continue reading →

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