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The Coffee Shop – Building a Medieval Castle (video)
The Coffee Shop is an open thread-style discussion forum for human interest news of the day. From Great Big Story: It’s hard to fathom how magnificent castles were built centuries ago. One group set out to understand just that by … Continue reading
Posted in Short Video
Tagged archeology, building, castle, construction, medieval ages, medieval castle, Open Thread, The Coffee Shop
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WORD CLOUD: VISION
by Nona Blyth Cloud Alice Walker (1944 – ) is famous for her novels, especially her third novel, The Color Purple. Since it was first published in 1982, The Color Purple earned the National Book Award for Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize … Continue reading
Clinch Mountain and all the Blue Ridge weeps tonight. Ralph Stanley has Flown West.
Bluegrass music legend Ralph Edmund Stanley, better known around here as Dr. Ralph Stanley, passed across to the Other Side today. Cause of death has been given as complications from skin cancer. He was best known for his “high lonesome” … Continue reading
Posted in Country Music, Music
Tagged Bluegrass music, Clinch Mountain Boys, National Medal of Arts, Ralph Stanley, Virginia
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The Coffee Shop: Elegy for the Arctic
The Coffee Shop is an open thread-style discussion forum for human interest news of the day. —oooOooo– There are several hosts, each host being responsible for picking a “theme of the day” and starting the discussion. But in an open thread, … Continue reading
Explaining Donald Trump to Kids
A new children’s book will be released on July 5, penned by comedian Michael Ian Black. In “A Child’s First Book of Trump,” Black lampoons Donald Trump: The beasty is called an American Trump. Its skin is bright orange, its figure … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Presidential Elections
Tagged Children's Books, Donald Trump, Explaining Donald Trump to Kids, Michael Ian Black, Satire
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Dark Water Painting
Garip Ay is a master of the ephemeral art of EBRU, a traditional Turkish technique for “painting on water”:
Posted in Art, Turkey
Tagged Dark Water Painting, Ebru, Garip Ay, Starry Night, Vincent Van Gogh
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The Coffee Shop – A Noiseless Patient Spider
The Coffee Shop is an open thread-style discussion forum for human interest news of the day. —oooOooo– There are several hosts, each host being responsible for picking a “theme of the day” and starting the discussion. But in an open thread, … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Climatology, The Coffee Shop, Walt Whitman
Tagged A Noiseless Patient Spider, Global Warming, Michael Greshko, Spider Silk, Spiders, Tasmania
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Happy Father’s Day
Posted in Humor
Tagged Dinosaur Dad cartoon, Happy Fathers Day, Liz Climo
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Notes in Emily Dickinson’s pocket – “Read, sweet, how others strove” (Life, 18)
“Tell all the Truth but tell it slant.” ~ Emily Dickinson ____________________________________ Read, sweet, how others strove, Till we are stouter; What they renounced, Till we are less afraid; How many times they … Continue reading
Posted in Emily Dickinson, Poetry
Tagged poem, Read, sweet how others strove
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The Coffee Shop – Marfa, TX (video)
The Coffee Shop is an open thread-style discussion forum for human interest news of the day. From ALCHEMYcreative: Something special happens when you turn off of Interstate 10 at Van Horn, Texas, on your way to Marfa. The sky opens … Continue reading
Posted in Short Video
Tagged artists community, cowboys, Donald Judd, Judd Foundation, Marfa, Open Thread, Texas, The Coffee Shop
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