Film Festival: The West and Southwest Cimarron was the first Western film to receive an Academy Award. It’s an epic saga depicting the changes in pioneer Oklahoma through the eyes of the Cravat family. The film is considered to be an accurate representation of the times, based on Edna Ferber‘s meticulous research. In Cimarron, Ferber…
Giveaway Summer Picnic 06.26 – 07.26.21
It’s time for the Summer Picnic Giveaway! It’s giveaway time at Katherines Corner and I’m co-hosting! It’s so fun to think about what to pack for a picnic. When my girls were little I used to love a dinner by the community pool with string cheese, grapes, and French bread or crackers. Simple but refreshing….
New York City: Manhattan
New York, New York, the Big Apple! Visiting Manhattan is overwhelming and sensory overload when you don’t live in a giant city yourself. But visiting is fun, educational, and yummy! When planning, the first decision we had to make was: did we want to get tickets for sports, Broadway shows, opera, or tours? For this…
Hilo – Big Island capital and culture
Hilo is a charming town on the Windward side of the Big Island. It is the Hawaii County seat and a wonderful place to visit for history, culture, food, shopping, and beautiful sights. The name Hilo comes from a rope made by Kamehameha the Great’s men who thought they needed to rescue him near the…
It Came From Outer Space sci-fi : Lisa’s Home Bijou
Film Festival: Science Fiction in the 1950s It Came From Outer Space (1953) is a classic sci-fi film based on a Ray Bradbury story. It is important to the genre because the outer space aliens that crash on Earth have no interest in invading or harming humans. John Putnam is an amateur astronomer who makes…