Hello, friends! I hope your week has gone well. Mine has been a flurry of appointments and shopping with my oldest granddaughter. We shared a delicious piece of cheesecake at that one restaurant (you know the one). Sometime this summer, I’m going shopping with my youngest granddaughter. I know exactly which store we’ll be entering. …
Today, my docent class “toured” the Lilly House at Newfields. While many call it the Lilly House, its actual name is Oldfields. It wasn’t built by the Lilly family but by the Landon family. The Landons built the home in the popular French country house style. J.K Lilly, Jr. bought it in 1932 and began …
On April 22, 1970, the very first Earth Day occurred. This grew out of a number of incidents, chief among them was an oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara, California. This oil spill dumped more than 3 million gallons of oil into the ocean. The resulting oil slick killed more than 10,000 seabirds, …