10.31 Hours before millions of Americans lost their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits because of a government shutdown, Trump hosts a “Great Gatsby” Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago. The event’s theme, “A little party never killed nobody,” referenced a song from the 2013 film adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. 10.30 Andrew, the younger brother …
Last year I had the pleasure of editing “It Worked for Me,” a memoir by a businessman named Jeff Burgess. Today Jeff and his wife Joanne invited my son in law Shawn Kelly and me to be their guests in their suite at a game between the Anaheim Ducks and the Chicago Blackhawks. We saw …
Around the country, millions protested–at least seven million, perhaps eight million, among them Chamber colleagues Sam Hoyt and John Maggiore in Buffalo, Time magazine colleague Ken Smith in Minnesota, Spy colleague Elissa Schappell in Catskill NY, EW colleague Cable Neuhaus in Palm Beach FL, my cousin Tim King in Tulsa, Sara Halliwell …
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10.17 The Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the Milwaukee Brewers 4-1, sweeping their series 4-0 to win the National League championship. In six plus innings of work, the starting pitcher for the Dodgers, Shohei Ohtani, strikes out ten batters and hits three home runs, one of which left the stadium. In 150 years of Major League …
Unwilling to pay the premium prices charged by Moulin Rouge and Crazy Horse, we did the nightclub thing at a place in Montemarte called Eve, where we drank champagne and saw a rousing Can Can. It was fun. Other sites we crammed into our waning hours included Les Drapeaux de France, a premier toy solder …
It’s a bucket list thing: you may be a civilized person, but if you haven’t heard an orchestra play Beethoven, if you haven’t seen Shakespeare being performed, if you haven’t seen the Mona Lisa, well, there’s something lacking. With our trip to the Louvre, at least one of these perhaps imaginary deficiencies has been addressed. …
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After a week on board the ship, we moved to the Pullman Hotel in the Montparnasse area. Nice place! We started the day with a walking tour of the picturesque Le Marais neighborhood. We saw the beautiful Place des Vosges, where Victor Hugo lived when he wrote the beginning of Les Miserables and other significant …
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We crowned the Viking portion of the trip with a night time cruise along the Seine. A breathtaking display.
Château Gaillard is a medieval castle ruin located on a steep hill overlooking the commune of Les Andelys. Construction began in 1196 under Richard the Lionheart, then King of England and Duke of Normandy. Work was completed in just two years. Château Gaillard had an advanced design, with three enclosures separated by dry moats surrounding a keep. It was also one …
PARIS TO NORMANDY TO PARIS, SEPTEMBER 19-20: LES CHATEAUX GAILLARD AND MALMAISON Read More »
Seeing Omaha Beach was one of the major elements of the trip, and the visit did not disappoint. We began the day in Bayeux, at the Memorial Museum of the Battle of Normandy. With excellent displays and exhibits, the museum tells the story of the Second World War, beginning with the painful aftermath of the …
PARIS TO NORMANDY TO PARIS, SEPTEMBER 18: OMAHA BEACH AND THE AMERICAN CEMETERY Read More »