May 31, 2020
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Memorial Day Remember our Servicemen and Women Who Died For Us
The Military Officers Association of America - Sarasota Chapter normally commemorates Memorial Day by marching in the parade in downtown Sarasota and distributing boxes for people to send to our troops serving in Afghanistan. Covid-19 has stopped the parade this year but not our memories and our thoughts honoring the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military. Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday of May each year. In 2020 it occurs on Monday, May 25. Originally known as Decoration Day, it originated in the years following the Civil War and became an official federal holiday in 1971. Many Americans observe Memorial Day by visiting cemeteries or memorials, holding family gatherings and participating in parades. Unofficially, it marks the beginning of the summer season. Early Observances of Memorial Day The Civil War , which ended in the spring of 1865, claimed more lives than any conflict in U.S. history and required the establishment of the country’s first national
EARLY AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY
EARLY AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY This is is a nice collection of tinted photochromic from the dawn of the 19th century hiding away in the Beinecke rare books and manuscript library. Published by the Detroit Photographic (which no longer exists), the firm’s photographers traveled the country snapping the sights of North America to be printed on postcards and sold to the public. Ocklawaha River, Florida, 1902 Click to view more photos https://planningnews.blogspot.com/2020/05/early-american-photography.html
Biker Gang May 13, 2020
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Our Main Street Opens Up May 8, 2020
Our little downtown Main Street in Lakewood Ranch is opening up during Covid-19. The State has opened restaurants at 25% capacity, keeping a 6 foot distance between customers. Our little community has closed down the street and put tables out into the street, allowing more customers to participate. And people will be able to take out food from the ten restaurants and eat it at one of the many free tables. Our community is of course elderly, with many people having compromised health. I think most of them will stay away. But younger people will enjoy our restaruant row.
2019 Sarasota Fiction Contest Winner
The rules and guidelines for the 2019 Sarasota Fiction Writer 's contest stated this year's theme was on the life and work of Salvador Dali. The story to be 2,500 words or less. A fictional piece to be frightening, dramatic, romantic, thrilling, humorous, sci-fi, western, etc. In other words, a freedom to create whatever you like around a Dali theme. Why Dali I hear you ask...well he is the 2020 artist being honored by Sarasota's awesome Selby Gardens Botanical Gardens. Previous artists honored have been Chagall (2017), Warhol (2018) and Gauguin (2019). My short story, judged the winner by the head of creative writing at Sarasota's Ringling College, was inspired by Dali's artistic ability to create art which visually morphs from one subject to another. Dali's painting, ' Persistence of Memory, 1931 ', combines three art genres: the still life, the landscape and the self-portrait. As you look and stare and look and stare and stare some more, the picture
The Neighbors
Two Nice Gators Below Our Window May 1, 2020 Between the do not feed the gator sign. Go Figure