The Presentation O-Sek Bang, 1974 from an exhibit at the Marian Library at University of Dayton, in 2006. Madonnas of the Morning Calm: Sacred Images from Korea was an exhibit at the University of Dayton's Marian Center in 2006. It featured a Korean artist, O-Sek Bang. The promotional material says that "Ms. Bang, whose grandparents [...]
The Navy has, or used to have, a program called Sea Perch. It teaches Middle Schoolers quite a bit about using tools. Students make a ‘vehicle’ that can be maneuvered underwater using PVC cutters, drills, and soldering irons, among other things. I never quite liked the word ‘vehicle’ in connection with the device because it [...]
I’ve been thinking about Purgatory, at least, with respect to Dante’s ideas of what it might be like. My art history friend claims that, although the Church has always taught that Purgatory exists, Dante was the first to use his poetic imagination to consider exactly how a soul might be purified there. Pictures of his [...]
Sometime ago I wrote about eating Boston Brown bread as a child, and a recipe I found at a blog called Tasting History. https://www.tastinghistory.com/episodes/bostonbrownbread ** I finally tried making the bread with my own special tweaks. Brown bread is notoriously made in cans, placed in boiling water, for a long time. I wasn’t sure I [...]
Header image Wandrille de Préville, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons I read an article on the internet about the Parisian fire-fighters and their efforts, back in 2019, to save Notre Dame cathedral. https://strangesounds.org/2019/07/notre-dame-fire-collapse-save-paris.html (I found it through this blog https://almatcboykin.wordpress.com/ which I have linked to in the past.) I had not paid full [...]
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