Early this morning Steve and Gary rented a truck and loaded all of Steve’s woodworking equipment to take to David in North Canton, Ohio. Steve has been using the Shopsmith less and less through the years and now is actively engaged in silversmithing. Dave is earnestly interested in learning wordworking. Hopefully he has enough space for all of this equipment! Although there really was enough room on the truck, the term “Ramming Speed!” was heard at least once during the loading process.
Off the beaten path is Hampstead is the more than three hundred year old Burgh House with a fascinating history. It’s now a community center, local museum, gallery, concert venue, event space, and more open to the public four days a week. We popped over for a bite to eat and to peruse the galleries to learn a little more about Hampstead history.
Ever since its debut on Broadway the two of us have wanted to see “Wicked the Musical”. Today we realized that dream. In the Apollo Victoria Theater in London’s West End we were witness to the incredible prequel to The Wizard of Oz, the story of the Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.
London’s National Portrait Gallery’s temporary exhibition, “Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens” presents an amazing collection of portraits, jewelry, personal effects, books, costumes, and more to illustrate not only the lives of the six women who married the second Tudor king, but the effort across five centuries to keep their memory alive.
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