Today’s post is written by Don Shearn
I just wanted to clarify that I am not the visual artist/painter at Ageless North Shore. So my opinion about the Matisse exhibit is purely from the entertainment angle.
Bathers by a River, March 1909–10, May–November 1913, and summer 1916–17
To wit, is it worth it to spend $18.00 ($12.00 if you’re over 65, a student or a child) at Chicago’s Art Institute to see the 120 paintings, prints, drawings, and prints that Henri Matisse created between 1913 and 1917?
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Professor Michael Ebner has compiled his All Star Baseball team. Who are your historic all-stars?
Catcher – Moses Fleetwood Walker – (Toledo Blue Stockings, 1884)
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In honor of opening day, our guest baseball blogger is Professor Michael Ebner.
Join us tomorrow for Michael’s All-Star Team.
Baseball means a great deal to me, enabling me to learn some of life’s basic lessons and perhaps nurturing my inclination for history. As a youngster growing up immediately after the end of the Second World War in northeastern New Jersey, I attached myself–for reasons that today I can only guess at–to the fortunes and misfortunes of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Professor Ebner
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