Yesterday and today we’ve had the pleasure of Emily’s company as we’ve explored the area of Kent and Cuyahoga Falls OH. Yesterday the costume shop closed early and she joined us for a delicious lunch at Mike’s Place, a delightful eatery in Kent with multiple themes including Star Wars and Margaritaville. We included her in a quest to replace our ancient dress shoes with the expert assistance of Mike at The Shoe Horn in Cuyahoga Falls then back to Silver Springs to introduce Emily and Sc@rlett. Em loved our trailer! After we dropped her off we headed straight to Porthouse Theater. This morning we met up with her in Kent to enjoy brunch together at the Rise & Shine Cafe in downtown Kent before exploring John Brown Tannery Park on foot. This stretch of the Cuyahoga River has a long and storied history. One person who for a while owned a business on the river here was a tanner named John Brown who had strong ties to this part of Ohio. He would fail as a tanner but after his first protests against segregation in the Congregational Church in Kent would go on to bloody abolitionist activities in Kansas and ultimately raid the National Armory in Harper’s Ferry unleashing a chain of events leading to the American Civil War.
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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