Heavenly Concerns at Chautauqua
In the 1950s, my girlfriends and I liked to sleep out in our backyards and watch the stars in the inky black …
Alexander Hamilton
As soon as I “met” Alexander Hamilton as a statue while Celebrating Independence in Philadelphia, I began reading Alexander Hamilton, the 2005 biography by Ron …
Celebrating Independence
As the the Summer Solstice coincided with a full moon for the first time in 49 years, my daughter, grandsons and I …
Women’s Suffrage
The Lucy Burns Museum in Lorton, Virginia, tells the remarkable story of Lucy Burns and Alice Paul and six months that changed history. …
Art by Women
Trailblazing artists who happened to be women were the subjects of an astonishing exhibit last winter at the Norton Museum of Art …
Relaxing in Scotland
Steve had already played in two Scottish golf tournaments when he met my train in Inverness on August 12. We drove north …
Cherrydale’s Russia Initiative
The year was 1997. In a remote town in the Ural Mountains, two girlfriends in the same apartment building shared dreams. Anna …