- Black Fox, A Life of Emilie Demant Hate, Artist and Ethnographer by Barbara Sjoholm
- The British Are Coming, The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson
- Down the WARPATH to the CEDARS, Indians’ First Battles in the Revolution by Mark R. Anderson
Two Ladies
Two Ladies Sitting on a wall at Karen Country Club, Nairobi, Kenya – My Cousin Kaysea and me (Janet)
Note the golfers in the distance
This picture was taken about 30 years ago. Do I miss those happy sunny days in Kenya – YES!!
Five Views of a Yellow-rumped Warbler
Nature is wonderful.
WC was lucky enough to find a pair of Yellow-rumped Warblers hawking a hatch of insects at the ponds in Kathryn Albertson Park last week. It was cold, breezy and overcast, with mostly gloomy light, but that wasn’t stopping the Yellow-rumpeds from chasing their meal. Here are five images intended to cheer up WC’s readers who are tired of cold, gloom, rain and snow.
Well, it cheered WC up a little, anyway. Hope it does the same for you.
Little Sketch Map to the Cathedral of the Pines
Cathedral of the Pines, Rindge New Hampshire
Growing up in New England I had often heard of the Cathedral of the Pines, but I had never been there nor did I know where it was located and the history behind it. It is a sort of sanctuary in memory of those men and women who gave their lives World War II.
Zebra in the Grass
Two Zebra
Return of Bird of the Week: Thick-billed Murre
There are more auklet species; WC just doesn’t have photos of them, so they won’t appear in RoBotW. Instead, we’ll move on to another genus of Alcids, the Murres.
The largest Alcid that has survived contact with humanity is this week’s Bird of the Week, the Thick-billed Murre.1
The Thick-billed Murre is about 17 inches (43 cm) tall, and weighs just over 2.2 pounds (1.1 kg). That makes them slightly larger than their cogener, the Common Murre. The Atlantic population tends to be slightly smaller than the Pacific population.
In summer, this species is found in continental shelf waters of the Arctic Ocean and adjacent seas, shifting southward in winter. It nests on precipitous…
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Elephants
Elephants – Masai Mara
A Postcard from Colorado
Boulder Colorado
Message side
This card is from my college friend and roommate Rachel. I knew she lived in Boulder Colorado, but the card is postmarked Louisville Colorado. Searching Wikipedia, I find Louisville is in the Southeastern corner of Boulder County.
The card was written in June 1991 and addressed to me in Nairobi Kenya – 30+ years ago.
Time passes – Rachel is no longer with us -sadly she passed away a year ago after a long illness. And because of COVID restrictions her family was not able to be with her for her final days.
I remember her especially in these days leading to our Middlebury Reunion, Class of 1958, gathering in June 2023.
BOOK REVIEW: THE DRESSMAKERS OF AUSCHWITZ
One of the most remarkable books I have read recently is Lucy Adlington’s The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: the true story of the women who sewed to survive. It covers a relatively unknown aspect of the Second World War that needs to be told.
For most informed people, the name Auschwitz is synonymous with the horrors of what we have learned about the Holocaust and, over time, we have become familiar with the narration of the mass deportation of Jews to camps, such as Auschwitz, where they were exterminated in their tens of thousands – largely through the use of gas chambers, although many were shot or literally worked to death – barely living anyway on the inadequate food they were provided with.
Some of you may recall watching the film Schindler’s List, which portrayed so well the prevailing callous attitude of camp guards who quickly learned to regard the…
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The Sad Death of DP Review
If you are a serious photographer, you’ve spent some time at DP Review. Love it or hate it, trust it or distrust it, DPReview has for more than 20 years been the best on-line source for reviews and recommendations of all things photographic. Camera and lens reviews, side-by-side comparisons, recommendations by intended use, price and more, DP Review is the place to look. And the on-line community that developed around DP Review was one of the most helpful on the internet.
As DP Review says in its mission statement,
Digital Photography Review’s mission is to provide the most authoritative coverage of digital photography gear in the world, including news, articles and expert reviews. We have built the most comprehensive database of consumer digital cameras on the Internet, and we provide an open, active forum and useful tools for our community.
Sure, it wasn’t perfect. WC and any number of…
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Janet's Thread 2 