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2016: Christmas Cheer on Fifth Avenue

Posted on December 14, 2016 by

  It may be a hopeful sign that New York’s prime shopping boulevard is defying the political unrest that is settling on the world. The city’s big stores came up with an enchanting extravaganza of Christmas windows endowing Midtown Manhattan … Continue reading →

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Pergamon, and my Belgian History Teacher, Come to the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Posted on April 25, 2016 by

As soon as I entered the Met Museum’s magnificent survey of Hellenistic Art (Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World, April 18-June 17, 2016) the voice of Miss Feytmans, who taught at my high school some 75 years … Continue reading →

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Christmas Windows in New York Never Disappoint

Posted on December 23, 2015 by

To momentarily forget the massacres in Paris and San Bernardino, the insane arsenals amassed by my fellow citizens, the irresponsible rhetoric of those who spend billions in their bid to become the president of the U.S.A…. I took myself to … Continue reading →

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A Spring Ritual: Central Park’s Conservatory Garden

Posted on June 16, 2015 by

In 1853, when it was in the planning stage, New York’s Central Park was to provide its mostly impoverished citizenry with an open country experience. It took Vaux and Olmsted twenty years to complete their assignment brilliantly. They carefully created … Continue reading →

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Christmas 2014: Other People’s Holidays

Posted on December 24, 2014 by

My mother was a Christmas junkie. I can still smell the pine aroma of the eight-foot tree that stood in our parlor in Hanover, Germany. Beeswax candles suffused the room with flickering light and a profusion of home-baked cookies weighed … Continue reading →

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