Lenora Rogers's Blog, page 149

Embattled Garden: GrahamDeconstructed | One Night Only Aug 19th, 2015 ….

Originally posted on NYC Dance Stuff:

The GrahamDeconstructed series brings audiences behind the scenes for an intimate view of Martha Graham’s masterworks. On August 19, the Martha Graham Dance Company will present a studio showing of Embattled Garden, Graham’s wry meditation on love’s strife inspired by the story of Adam and Eve. The work will be performed with the extraordinary Noguchi set. Artistic Director Janet Eilber will contextualize the work through a spoken...

London’s River 1- From The Cotswolds To Teddington – by J. R. L. Anderson

Originally posted on The Journal of Antiquities:

Map of the River Thames (Cotswolds to Teddington).

Here quoted “in full” is the brilliant and very comprehensive article from ‘The Illustrated LONDON NEWS’ magazine of July 1971, written by J.R.L.Anderson. In the forward to the articlewe are told that: “The Upper Thames no longer carries commercial traffic, though it remains a fine inland waterway for pleasure cruising. In the first of a two-part article the author, who lives in the Thames,...

Gallery: These buildings are made of … bamboo?

Originally posted on ideas.ted.com:

Plunge into the deep Balinese jungle and you might suddenly find a bamboo building soaring above you. Made from the frankly unlikely building material, theethereal structures are the brainchildren of designer Elora Hardy and her team at Ibuku (TED Talk: Magical houses, made of bamboo). The one-of-a-kind houses are curving, magical and utterly stunning. Take a look.

Six floors of bamboo home

Sharma Springs, a private home in Sibang Gede in Bali, has four be...

The art of storytelling, according to the founders of StoryCorps and Humans of New York

Originally posted on ideas.ted.com:

Dave Isay and Brandon Stanton. Photo courtesy StoryCorps.

Between them, Dave Isay, TED Prize winner and founder of StoryCorps, and Brandon Stanton, founder of Humans of New York, have collected more than 75,000 stories from regular people around the world. Isaycollects his stories as audio files, while Stantontakes a photo and theninterviews his subject—but they’ve both developed fascinating techniques for helping people to open up. They sat down recentl...

1865 July 29: Soldier-Boy Waggery

Originally posted on The Civil War and Northwest Wisconsin:

This humorous article appeared in the July 29, 1865, issue of The Polk County Press.

Soldier-Boy Waggery.

The Columbus (Ohio) Journal says : “Among the sharp boys in Sherman’s army on the grand march was a graduate of the common schools of Northern Ohio—the only son of a widowed mother. The fond mother had no word from her son from the time the army left Chattanooga till it reached Atlanta. She waited for tidings with anxiety—watchi...

Pvt. James B. Grant, Co. B, 8th Georgia Infantry, On the March, the Battle, Capture, Escape, and Aftermath

Originally posted on Bull Runnings:

The Great Battle of Manassas.

A Graphic Account,

By One Who Participated.
————

We are kindly permitted to publish, almost entire, the following letter from a surviving Oglethorpeto his mother. We think our readers will agree with us that it the most interesting yet published. Our young friend has proved himself an artist with the pan as well as the pencil. It is proper to remark that it was not written for publication, but it will be found all the more adm...

How to Create Dimensional Characters—Beyond the Wound & Into the Blind Spot

Originally posted on Kristen Lamb's Blog:

Today, we’re going to explore an extension of the WOUND. The BLIND SPOT. There are no perfect personalities. All great character traits possess a blind spot. The loyal person is a wonderful friend, but can be naive and taken advantage of.

The take-charge Alpha leader can make a team successful, but also inadvertently tromp over feelings or even fail to realize that others have great ideas, too. Maybe even BETTER ideas.

A super caring, nurturing pers...

What Author’s Style Do You Admire The Most?

Originally posted on Dan Alatorre - AUTHOR:

I get asked this sometimes, so here’s my answer. From now on I can copy paste, I guess.

What author’s style do you admire the most?

For me, it’s Mark Twain.

Lame, right?

Yawn.

And what’s with the hair?

How many of us were forced to read Tom Sawyer in school? And why does a book tend to suck when you’re forced to read it in school? Anyway, if what somebody wrote during the Ulysses S. Grant administration can still make people laugh on their iPads,...

‘How I Came to Kill Your Brother’: A Confederate Reveals an Irish-American’s Final Moments

Originally posted on Irish in the American Civil War:

I have come across many extraordinary stories during my time researching the Irish in the American Civil War. None surpass that of Sergeant Peter Donnelly of Company C, 1st Vermont Heavy Artillery. Almost uniquely, the historical record has combined to provide us with details of this ordinary Irish-American’s death from the perspectives of both friend and foe. I am extremely grateful to Peter Patten for initially alerting me to this remar...

‘How I Came to Kill Your Brother': A Confederate Reveals an Irish-American’s Final Moments

Originally posted on Irish in the American Civil War:

I have come across many extraordinary stories during my time researching the Irish in the American Civil War. None surpass that of Sergeant Peter Donnelly of Company C, 1st Vermont Heavy Artillery. Almost uniquely, the historical record has combined to provide us with details of this ordinary Irish-American’s death from the perspectives of both friend and foe. I am extremely grateful to Peter Patten for initially alerting me to this remar...