Group Exhibit In Connecticut Includes Work By Arthur Getz The Rose Algrant Show in West Cornwall Connecticut will include work by the late exceptionally great New Yorker artist Arthur Getz. Mr. Getz holds the title of most prolific cover artist in the magazine’s history (213 in his 50 years of contributing). The Spill contacted Mr. Getz’s daughter for information
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If you live in or near Columbus, Ohio (where James Thurber was born waaaay back in 1894), you can honor him this coming Saturday while helping out Thurber House by attending a fundraiser. All the info here. About the fundraiser from The Columbus Dispatch (where Thurber worked before heading off to the bright lights and big city): “The event will
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Debut Video Series Of Interest: “Talk & Draw With Liza Donnelly and Heather Cox Richardson” Long time New Yorker contributor, Liza Donnelly and historian, Heather Cox Richardson debut a collaborative series centering on history and politics. See the first episode here (it’s approx 4 minutes).
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Personal History: Babar At The Library, Babar At Home Babar At The Library Memory is, as the saying goes, selective. With that in mind, (so to speak!) one from my earliest days, is more than fleeting. It begins with my 4th grade class on a field trip — a mile walk — to the public library. The walk itself was
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