The Half Century Mark Hotel at Sixty North
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A Letter from Jean(ne) Baret, a French herbswoman and the first woman to circumnavigate the globe, to Her Son. Although many aboard Baret’s ship kept diaries, no first person accounts of Jean/ne’s direct experiences have been found. These series of letters imagines her words as she might have written to her children had they survived…
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Humanity seeks assistance. Cruel playground of a planet requires transformational situation. All experiences welcome.
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We have a new afternoon card game; it’s called Posies to Poems. It’s similar to Apples to Apples but it involves Flowers and Poems, no fruit. Some of our guests have taken to playing it with darts which was never the intent, but we aspire to maintain our flexibility at the Half Century Mark. Posies to Poems…
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In April, thanks to my friend Mandy Smith, I will be exhibiting at the Weller Gallery, Fellows Riverside Gardens in Youngstown, Ohio April 24 – June 14, 2015. I’m pleased as punch to be able to empty the vault here at the Hotel for this special occasion. I’ll be showing 23 floral photographs that honor…