Back in June 1967 Stan and Steve were part of a party of four from Explorer Post 266 who hiked 67 miles on the Appalachian Trail in the Smokies. Today they hiked the Kephart Prong Trail to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of that AT hike. Not bad for a couple of 35 year olds! They were joined by Karen and by two of Stan’s daughters, Heather and Hope. For a bit of extra fun, Stan brought along the Post 266 record book from ’67. What a trip down memory lane!
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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