… the National Museum of Funeral History is hosting the exhibit “Celebrating the Lives and Deaths of the Popes” billed as the only display of papal artifacts outside the Vatican. It took the museum two years to secure Vatican permission for the project, plus another year to put the exhibit together, said Genevieve Keeney, the museum director who is also a bereavement counselor and licensed funeral director. It had an advantage in a board member who had a connection to... Read more
… A turkey, a ham, a dozen deviled eggs, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberries, apple sauce, green beans, rolls, corn bread, corn on the cob, green bean casserole, pumpkin pie, and banana pudding… oh, and that was just dinner. Over the course of the next few days I consumed… 4 turkey sandwiches, 3 ham biscuits, A gallon of sweet tea, wine, beer, more banana pudding, and more sweet potatoes. For breakfast this morning I finished off one 4 day... Read more
image credit: NLM “We are reminded of the urgent need for a renewed dialogue between aesthetics and ethics, between beauty, truth and goodness”, the Pope writes, “not only by contemporary cultural and artistic debate, but also by daily reality. In fact, at various levels, there is a dramatically-evident split … between the two dimensions: that of the search for beauty – understood however in reductive terms as exterior form, as an appearance to be pursued at all costs – and... Read more
… this year’s winner of the Avery Fisher Award. Read more
another from Life’s 1955 photo journal on Polish Americans. Read more
… in all it’s wonderful forms. Photo: Life Magazine, Polish Americans, a photo journal c.1955 Who said being a nun meant you had to give up having a family and children? Read more
… Josef Hassid performing the Hebrew Melody, at the tender age of 16. Josef was a Polish violinist prodigy plagued by mental illness who died in 1950 at the age of 27, after having received a lobotomy for schizophrenia. A little something for Mary Rose. Read more
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