Frankie Manning and his son Chaz Young taught various dance lessons today at the Pinellas Park Auditorium. Frankie started out with the very basics of Lindy Hop. Today’s lesson may very well be the most valuable of all the Lindy lessons that we have taken over the last several years! Then this evening we saw and talked to him again at the Saturday Night Mostly Swing Dance at the Largo Community Center.
London’s Imperial War Museum in Southwark founded even as the First World War raged offers insights into the myriad costs of the wars of the 20th and 21st Centuries. It was a most disquieting but valuable reminder of the myriad costs of war.
The two of us have long been fascinated with the history of canals and their role in the history of transportation, industrialization, and more recently recreation. This stay in London has given us new opportunities to explore and learn more about how canals contributed to the growth of this great city and how they are being used and preserved today.
It was a most educational visit to the newly renovated National Portrait Gallery at Trafalgar Square in Central London. We were intrigued with the contemporary approach to presenting British History.
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