It’s hard to believe that our decision to spend all of Memorial Day out of doors at home with our kids and friend Gary back in 1992, swimming in the pool, grilling out, playing games, and just relaxing, has turned into an annual gathering of family and friends. These days some folks travel long distances, from Florida, Ohio, Arkansas, Georgia. It has become a annual reunion of friends as well as a feast with many of the same foods on the menu year after year!
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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