![]() ![]() ![]() In 2019, over 30,000 people joined the festivities.Ī lot of good happened in those four decades. Over the years Northampton Pride (now Hampshire Pride), which began primarily as a protest, appropriately morphed into, mostly, a joyous celebration. When the yearly Pride marches began in the early 1980s, some participants wore paper bags over their heads to hide their identity so that they wouldn’t be ostracized from their families or fired from their jobs - public school teachers, for example. ![]() Later, on the stage constructed at the Armory Street parking lot, musicians will play and sing dancers will dance drag performers will perform 50 vendors will vend Northampton Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra will speak so will U.S. On Main Street, dozens and dozens of groups and thousands of people will march and chant and celebrate. On May 6, after a three-year COVID-induced hiatus, Pride is returning to Northampton. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() How was Nina's life shaped by her mother's? How has your own life been shaped by the people who raised you?Ħ. This novel is in part about the way we repeat the mistakes of our parents or try to avoid doing so. Why do you think time and place are so important? How does the author bring the 80s Malibu scene to life?ĥ. Now, with Malibu Rising, she's exploring Malibu in the 80s. Daisy Jones & The Six was about 70s rock n' roll in Southern California. ![]() The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo was set in Hollywood in the 60s. As Taylor Jenkins Reid said, she is often inspired by time and place. Which Riva sibling-Nina, Jay, Kit, or Hud-did you relate to the most, and why? How are these siblings alike and how are they different?Ĥ. They are myths we create about the people who came before us, in order to make sense of ourselves." Do you agree? How did this book make you think about your own family history?ģ. Early on, Taylor Jenkins Reid writes, "Our family histories are simply stories. How does Malibu Rising explore the darker realities of fame and fortune? How is fame different for women than it is for men? What kinds of expectations do we place on female celebrities?Ģ. Just because something looks like paradise, doesn't mean its heaven. ![]() ![]() The voice of the soul is not so easily translated. My English is good enough for the little stories I publish in pulp magazines, but for poetry one needs one’s native tongue. Why don’t you write in English, Marina? asks my friend Elizabeth. Those who love poetry, even my unreadable foreign brand, are a tender breed. No liquor on the premises just now-though it will come soon, down from San Francisco. ![]() ![]() In a few minutes, I will beach my boat on the pebbly shore and give him his due-we’ll share a bottle of homebrew, or perhaps he comes with a flask. I don’t complain, there are shutters to block out a storm, and an iron stove with a solid pipe. It’s only five dollars, the shack’s not built for winter. I have the money in a cigar box back in my cabin, most of it anyway. I watch the lanky form of my landlord’s son crossing the shingle, coat collar up, stopping by to collect rents. All one needs is a rented cabin, a decent stove, a small boat, a garden gone to seed for winter. If I knew him better I’d tell him the danger of trusting to solid things. The slow labor of the poet building himself a stone house at the cove’s south end makes for mild entertainment. No boys and girls play on the deserted beach now, only a few stoic fishermen huddle on upturned buckets. ROCKING ON THE RAZOR-MUSSELED bay, lulled by the sleepy toll of buoy bells, the music of rigging, the eloquent stanzas of the waves, I wait for news from the sea. ![]() ![]() ![]() Based on these observations, we offer the following conclusions. Fourth, cross-sectional comparisons among competing models of ABC associations cannot disambiguate competing hypotheses about the structure and the range of directed and reciprocal relations between changes in brain and behavior. Third, variances and correlations among measures of brain and cognition frequently vary with age. Second, age differences and age changes in brain and cognition are often nonlinear. ![]() First, there is enough disparity among the measures of brain structure and cognitive performance to question the uniformity of B and C vertices of the ABC triangle. His review, however, misses several important points. Salthouse (2011) critically reviewed cross-sectional and longitudinal relations among adult age, brain structure, and cognition (ABC), and identified problems in interpretation of the extant literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the 1881 census Harriet's mother Elizabeth, with a grandson Edward S Alcock, is listed as head of a separate household to the couple and their children at number 37 Navarino Road in Hackney. ![]() Harry and Harriet started their married life in what may have been the Alcock family home. Witnesses to the marriage of Harry and Harriet Witnesses to their marriage were his father and his brother-in law. Harry married his brother-in-law, Stephen Stiles Alcock's, sister, Harriet Alcock on the 24th July 1876 at St John the Baptist Church in Islington. Annie's middle name from her mother and Harry's and his mother's middle name from his maternal grandmother, Mary Ann Coleman. Harry's sister Marion's middle name appears to have come from her paternal grandmother, Susanna Ring. It appears to have been a tradition when naming children within the Richardson families to use maiden surnames of previous generations. The 1861, 18 census for his parents show that Harry was one of at least six children his known siblings were Florence Ellen Richardson, Marion Ring Richardson, Annie Boys Richardson, George Clarke Richardson and Edith Constance Richardson. ![]() He was the son of George Cavendish Richardson and Ellen Coleman Boys. Harry Coleman Richardson was born in 1852 in London, England. ![]() ![]() Raphael, Duke of Holbrook, is an unlikely hero, mired as he is in an alcoholic stupour caused by guilt and pain. The Taming of the Duke takes the basic plot of The Taming of the Shrew and turns it on its head. As a scholar of Shakespeare, the nod she gives his plays when choosing her titles is intentional. James’ series feature innovative plots, vibrant dialogue and an authenticity that comes from immersing herself in studies of the relevant time period. ![]() She has decided that Gabe, brother of her guardian Rafe, fits the bill nicely however Rafe and Gabe have other plans for the adventurous widow. Now the third book in this series – The Taming of the Duke – focuses on Imogen, who is determined to enter the delicious world open to respectable widows, that of taking a lover. ![]() In Much Ado About You, the first book in the Four Sisters Regency series by Eloisa James (which focuses on Tess, the oldest Essex sister), Imogen succeeds in her heart’s desire and spends two weeks married before Draven is killed in a riding accident. Imogen spent years determined to capture the heart of Draven Maitland and marry him, despite the fact that he was affianced. ![]() ![]() ![]() On June 23, Passion reached Number 7 on the USA Today Bestseller List, for books overall. A new edition of Natalie Hargrove was also released on the same day as the paperback edition of Torment. The third book in the Fallen series, entitled Passion, was released on June 14, 2011. ![]() The paperback edition of Fallen debuted at #1 on the list, as well. It debuted at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller List (Fallen came in that week at #2), remaining at that position through the week of October 17. Torment, the sequel to Fallen, was released on 28 September 2010. As of Wednesday, April 6, 2011, Fallen had spent one year and four months-with brief interruptions-on the List. Her books have been translated into over thirty languages and include The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove and Fallen, which reached #3 on The New York Times Best Seller List for children's chapter books on January 8, 2010. Lauren Kate is an internationally bestselling author of young adult fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Every Single Thing” is the second single for the album. The first thing I thought when I heard the introductory song “Hello Welcome” was, “This album is going to put me at ease.” The soulful and smooth guitar riffs set the mood for the whole project, and the song ends with a robotic voice that welcomes the listener to the album. HOMESHAKE performs at The Cobra in Nashville on Dec. ![]() Sagar is a genius writer that knows how to make an easygoing, yet catchy hit. ![]() The album almost feels as if it could be turned into a rap or hip-hop album at times with certain backing beats found in tracks like “Not U.” “Fresh Air” wraps up jangly guitar, sensual beats and relaxed lyrics. However, his mix of slacker indie pop, soul and R&B should speak for itself. He experiments with voice effects and samples of vibrating phones or short excerpts of dialogue, and he composes sensual ballads with infectious, electronic drumbeats. As the former guitarist for indie rock prince Mac Demarco, Sagar’s music is often overshadowed. He writes and sings the bulk of the material, and friends Greg Napier, Mark Goetz and Brad Loughead make occasional contributions. Peter Sagar is the mastermind behind the project. ![]() Homeshake released his third studio album, “Fresh Air,” last Friday with more mellow, bass-driven R&B vibes than ever. Story by Megan Loveless / Contributing Writer Photos by Hudson McNeese / Contributing Photographer ![]() ![]() ![]() A budding interracial friendship/romance is one plot thread. ![]() While there's murder or death in the novel, guns, bows and arrows, and cannons are used by adults, and there's mild hand-to-hand combat, gambling, and knife fighting. Fourteen-year-old Sophronia attends a finishing school for assassins, where she learns to pick locks and use high-tech weaponry (dangerous knives, scissors) - as well as how to be a lady. Like her other novels, this one - her first for the YA audience - features strong female and male role models and a puzzling mystery set in a steampunk Victorian world. Parents need to know that Etiquette & Espionage is the the first book in the Finishing School series by popular adult author Gail Carriger. ![]() A mention of trying to put gin into punch.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. ![]() ![]() ![]() Milkman’s restless, funny, dark and densely packed prose has been compared to Samuel Beckett, though Burns says she only read the Irish Nobel laureate after finishing her novel. Set in a divided, unnamed city, the novel follows an 18-year-old girl who is being stalked by a sinister and much older man, known locally as “the milkman” (none of the characters are given names). ![]() Milkman (Faber & Faber ), like No Bones and her second novel Little Constructions (2007), draws on Burns’s childhood. In 1987 she moved to London, to study Russian, and a decade later she wrote her first novel, No Bones, a blackly comic, Belfast-set coming-of-age story that was shortlisted for the women’s Orange Prize in 2002. ![]() “Someone at my publishers said yesterday ‘Now that you’ve won the Booker Prize…’ and it really hit me for the first time,” she told me before we took the stage for a conversation at Foyles bookshop in central London.īurns, who is 56, was born in Belfast and raised in the predominantly Catholic district of Ardoyne, the location of some of the city’s worst violence during the Troubles. ![]() When we meet it is less than 48 hours since Anna Burns was announced as the surprise winner of the 50th Man Booker Prize, and she is adjusting to her new reality. ![]() |