Welcome to our brand new website!
We have been working feverishly to bring our new website up to speed. It has been a thrilling process.I will write in this space about twice a month to bring our visitors and friends up to date.There’s no ad lib editing here, and no back spacing. Warmest wishes, Joan
Read MoreMadame Curie as Reimagined by Lauren Redniss currently Free on Amazon.com
“There’s a glowing, coruscating, lambent, luminescent moment in Amazon’s ‘Radioactive’ trumpets The Wall Street Journal ARTS REVIEW BY Joe Morgenstern dated Friday, July 24, 2020. Just in time to join the good news… “MADAME CURIE as REIMAGINED BY LAUREN REDNISS” our Marsh ebook currently FREE on amazon.com. Click here to be transported to: MADAME CURIE…
Read MoreALAN REID MARSH
A RENAISSANCE MAN FOR THE 21ST CENTURY… Once upon a time in that faraway place, Middletown, Ohio, on 25 October 1930, there was born a beautiful baby boy who was destined to live a blessed life, and a very long one. When he approached his 90th birthday, still in command of his powerful mental faculties,…
Read MoreISABELLA STEWART GARDNER and Her Museum
ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER and her story burn as brightly today as when Boston Society and the world first met her in the late 19th century. And the years have been kind to Isabella since that splashy entrance. Today she takes her rightful place as one of the earliest of the independent American women…now referred to…
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the famous Peacock Room with blue wallsTHE PEACOCK ROOM and WHISTLER’S MOTHER
A personalized look at the life and times of James Abbott McNeill Whistler… During the course of his work for the art patron, Frederick R. Leyland, a Liverpool shipowner, the following transpired: “That gave the excitable Whistler a clear field. Alone in the house, he more than touched up the room with a little gold…
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poundingly full of lifeMARGARET’S GARDEN A Personal Memoir
Going far back to the first time we got a really good look at the famous “SUNFLOWERS” they were standing guard over the salon of the famous Linda Benz on Rainbow Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri. They were tall and wide and stretched clear up to the ceiling. They were poundingly full of life, brilliantly…
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the launching of Thaden SchoolTHE FLYING LIFE Iris Louise McPhetridge Thaden and the launching of THADEN SCHOOL
The 1930s was a wild and woolly time in the infant world of air planes… “Once upon a time” begins the compelling story of Louise Thaden, a pioneer aviatrix of great distinction…her adventures… …her records set…her recognition for daring and brilliant flying… is the stuff of aeronautic legend…culminating with the naming of the cutting edge…
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she is defining and observing for usSAYING HELLO TO JOAN DIDION
The single compelling link between Joan and her readers is… the power of her prose. Writing is what she does, and reporting is what she does best. At the peak of her career her writing was recognized for its significance in defining and observing American subcultures for mainstream audience. If you wondered why she was…
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she pinned a flower to her dress MADAME CURIE as REIMAGINED by LAUREN REDNISS
The imaginative re-telling of the well known story of Marie and Pierre Curie, their passionate love, their passionate research, their brilliant discovery, blooms in the book Radioactive…Marie & Pierre Curie A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss. Radioactivity had made the Curies immortal. Now it was killing them. Early on in our story, we are…
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the lady with an ermineROBERT EDSEL and THE MONUMENTS MEN
The inspired creation of THE MONUMENTS MEN Foundation and the rescue and restoration of millions of the most important and iconic works of art stolen by the Nazis during World War II is gripping reading of the highest order. And it is all TRUE! Thanks to the innovative thinking and powerful drive of Robert Edsel,…
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