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CitySketch: The Dairy
I made a quick sketch of the Dairy in Central Park and was going to write a post about its history but found that Tom Miller had beaten me to it on his Daytonian inManhattan blog: In 1853, the same year that the New York State Legislature set aside more than 750 acres to create… Read more
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If Beale Street Could Talk
Yesterday morning there was a man in the lobby of my office building talking into his phone at an obscene volume. As we rode up in the elevator together – four or five of us – it became obvious that he was not like the rest of us and did not want to be. He… Read more
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The Queen of Soul
“At the Grammys in 1998, the legendary soul singer stepped in – at the last minute – for Pavarotti, who had been due to sing his trademark piece, Nessun Dorma. So obviously she went ahead and performed that aria. Nessun Dorma is one of the most impressive of tenor arias – with an astronomically high… Read more
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Hope Springs Eternal
A sunny day dawns… Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blessed: The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. -Alexander Pope Read more
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