And Washington or Scott Avenue. Actually the the main entrance to the public library in Mobile is on the other side from Government. No crown of kudzu in evidence, no sirens wailing, but we walked through the door from Gulf Coastal heat into the library quiet and cool. We’d like to thank Jimmy Buffett for making us aware of this lovely place where we paid tribute to our own encounter in the Mirror Lake Library on a Saturday in October 1969. And so the Odyssey continues.
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.
The purpose of our trek to Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham in the southwest of London was to see a recently recovered bronze bust of the Emperor Caligula but we discovered so much more in the recently restored 18th Century “little Gothic castle” built by Horace Walpole.
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