Sentences with phrase «local historian who»
The farmhouse he bought with his wife, Jean, in 1980 had a history with Lucy's legend, but he didn't know that till years later when he sat down for breakfast with a longtime local historian who told him Lucy's story and showed him a leather satchel filled with recollections, newspaper articles, and letters about her, gathered over the years.
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And yet you are guided by the ramblings of five authors from the 1st century CE who basically are regurgitating local myths and embellishments and have no supporting backgrounds as trained historians.
These were the words of the historian Gregory of Tours (d. 594), deployed against Gallic pagans who threw offerings into a local swamp.
New Rochelle is fortunate to have just such an expert in New Rochelle's City Historian Barbara Davis, a wonderful and unique community asset who is rarely at a loss when it comes to local history.
The concert will include a program performed by acclaimed soprano Audrey DuBois Harris, who will feature some of the songs from the repertoire of Ms. Davis, spirituals, and selections from the original opera, The Gentle Lark of New Rochelle, which was written by local historian Karen S. Allen.
There were genre writers on both sides of the dispute, but on the publishing side were huddled the biographers, urban historians, midlist novelists — that is, all the people who were able to eke out a living because publishers still paid advances, acting as a kind of local literary bank, in anticipation of future sales.
Kurt Cyr, the Midcentury Modern architecture expert and food historian, offers a Palm Springs Mod Squad tour (which you can book year - round, not just during Modernism Week), a 90 - minute zip through historic neighborhoods to see groundbreaking architectural works by the six local architects who shaped the look of the city.
In recent years, locals have praised «Morrison House Presents,» a free discussion series that spotlights artists, authors, historians, and other cultural figures who have keen insights to share with Alexandrians.
Tomie Arai is a public artist who collaborates with writers, architects, historians, curators, and local communities to create visual narratives that give meaning to the spaces we live in.
Tomie Arai is a New York based public artist who collaborates with writers, architects, historians, curators, and local communities to create work that explores the rich cultural diversity of the Americas.
That could help draw more collectors, curators, art historians and writers to the city, who then could spread word about what they've seen, perhaps leading to requests for work from local artists to be included in exhibitions around the country.