by alan | Sep 1, 2012 | Summer 2012 Issue
Zak Starkey (born 13 September 1965) is an English rock drummer. He is the son of the Beatles drummer Ringo Starr and Starr’s first wife, Maureen Starkey Tigrett. He is also well known for his unofficial membership in the English rock band, The Who, with whom...
by alan | Sep 1, 2012 | Summer 2012 Issue
THE END OF AN ERA The remaining few phone booths in Coronado signals the end of an era, a technology, and a bygone way of life. We no longer have any need to save nickels, dimes, and quarters or ask for change for the phone. In Manhattan all phone booths have been...
by alan | Sep 1, 2012 | Summer 2012 Issue
JANET RELLER DILL’S HORS D’OEUVRES By Kimberley Dill Graham Since my mom passed a decade or so ago, one of the special qualities I wish she had not taken to her grave were her recipes. As all people do, we think we will have time. I’ll get her to write that recipe...
by alan | Sep 1, 2012 | Summer 2012 Issue
Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince; And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. – Hamlet, Act V William Shakespeare 1564-1616 Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven’s claws. – An American...
by alan | Sep 1, 2012 | Summer 2012 Issue
By Helen Nichols Murphy (Battleson) THOMAS JEFFERSON – SALLY HEMMINGS In 1998, what is probably the most famous case of DNA-analysis was resolved with a Y-chromosome test: “Did Thomas Jefferson have children with his slave Sally Hemmings?” The DNA of five...
by alan | Sep 1, 2012 | Summer 2012 Issue
By Alan and Kimberley Graham The Old Curiosity Shop can be found at 13–14 Portsmouth Street, Westminster, London, near the London School of Economics. The building dates back to the sixteenth century. Constructed from the wood of old ships, it once functioned as a...
