Wednesday, April 1, 2020


11 Book Series From Your Childhood You May Not Have Realized Are Still Releasing Books by Ellen Gutoskey   List includes Goosebumps and Amelia Bedelia.  https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/619009/book-series-from-your-childhood-still-releasing-books

Nationally recognized primitive artist Bernadine Corrine Puffenberger Stetzel (1927-2016) was known as the memory artist.  This was due to the series of paintings she began creating of her beloved hometown of Tiffin, Ohio.  These paintings recalled her childhood days growing up in Tiffin during the 1930's and 40's.  Her work was known for its pure bright vivid colors.  Her paintings represented a charm and innocence of days past.  She was awarded countless awards and honors for her artwork, including a second place award for her print “JFK Ticker Tape Parade” at the Toledo Museum of Art Area Artists Exhibition.  Bernadine was a Renaissance woman.  She was an avid quilter, seamstress, cook and baker.  She crocheted and even did carpentry work.  She had a great love for history and antiques.  Over several decades Bernadine wrote and illustrated more than twenty children's books.  At age 85 she became a first time published author and illustrator when four of her children's books were published.  A documentary of her life titled, Memory Painting the Art of Bernadine Stetzel was produced by Bowling Green State University and the Ohio Arts Council.  It was broadcast throughout the state of Ohio on PBS television stations.  Bernadine created a series of 71 paintings dealing with the life of President John F. Kennedy.  In 2011, she donated the entire series to the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas.  In 2012 an exhibition featuring paintings from the series was held at the Sixth Floor Museum. Bernadine co-authored with her daughter Elizabeth, a book titled, Remembering JFK.  The book was published in 2014 and features all 71 of the paintings from Bernadine's JFK series.  In 2015 Bernadine was awarded the Silver Seneca Science, Art and Athletic Achievement Award and inducted into the Tiffin Calvert High School Hall of Fame.  https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/toledoblade/obituary.aspx?n=bernadine-corrine-stetzel&pid=181007740&fhid=8056  See many paintings by Bernadine Stetzel at https://www.toledoblade.com/gallery/Paintings-by-Bernadine-Stetzel

Leave no stone unturned.  Euripides  Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC-406 BC)  Heraclidae, circa 428 BC  http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/24143.html

In 1952 Ogden Nash published “The Private Dining Room and Other New Verses” which included a poem titled “Everybody’s Mind To Me a Kingdom Is or A Great Big Wonderful World It’s”.  The following lines exhibited the wordplay.  This I shall do because I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at sea birds I leave no tern unstoned . . . I am a meticulous man, and when I portray baboons I leave no stern untoned . . .  https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/12/04/untoned/#more-17430

The union of Robert Graves and the town of Deià, a privileged spot in the Tramuntana mountain range, dotted with green cliffs erecting over the Mediterranean, is so intimate and profound that both the writer and the Majorcan town have had similar fates on the global stage.  Born in Wimbledon (1895), the famous English poet, writer and novelist had an intense life marked by love and war.  Sent to France to serve in World War One, Graves became seriously injured to the point he was believed dead.  The experiences lived during battle would mark his first collection of poems, Over the Brazier (1916).

Breath-taking scenery inspired the life and work of Robert Graves, and as advised by the writer Gertrude Stein, “If you like paradise, Mallorca is paradise”.  With more than 240 books on mythology and poetry, historical novels, biographies and children’s stories, Graves left behind a unique artistic legacy. 

Poem:  How to Survive This from Barbara Kingsolver's timely forthcoming collection of poems, “How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons),” a potent how-to for awkward, complicated days by Barbara Kingsolver and Naomi Shihab Nye.  www.nytimes.com › column › magazine-poem

Thieves stole a painting by Dutch master Vincent van Gogh early Marrch 30, 2020 from the Netherlands’ Singer Laren Museum, which is currently closed to the public because of the coronavirus.  The painting “Lentetuin”, or “Spring Garden,” which dates back to 1884 and depicts the garden of the rectory at Nuenen, had been on loan from the Groninger Museum.  In a statement, police said the thieves had entered the museum by breaking its glass doors at around 3.15 a.m. (0115 GMT).  “The culprits were gone by the time police responded to the alarm,” the statement said.  Investigators are searching for security footage and witnesses, and are examining forensic evidence, it added.  Dutch museums have been closed because of the coronavirus outbreak since March 12, 2020.  Hilde Verweij  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-netherlands-museum-van-gogh/van-gogh-painting-stolen-from-dutch-museum-during-coronavirus-shutdown-idUSKBN21H23M

The beloved children's author and illustrator Tomie dePaola, whose imaginative and warm-hearted work crossed generations and continents, died March 30, 2020 at age 85.  DePaola's work stretched over many realms of his imagination, from a magical faux-folk tale centered on a kindly and crafty Calabrian grandmother—Strega Nona, which won the Caldecott Honor Award in 1976—to retelling the inspiring Comanche story of The Legend of the Bluebonnet.  In 2000, he won a Newbery Honor for his book 26 Fairmount Avenue, which was one of his more autobiographical projects that recounted his early childhood.  By dePaola's own count, he worked on some 270 books, as the author, illustrator or both—the first in 1965, and the most recent published in 2019.  In 2011, he won a lifetime prize, the Children's Literature Legacy Award (which, until 2018, was called the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award), which hailed his "substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children."  In all, nearly 25 million copies of his books have been sold around the world.  Anastasia Tsioulcas  https://www.npr.org/2020/03/30/824244076/tomie-depaola-beloved-childrens-author-and-illustrator-has-died

March 30, 2020  The outcry from publisher and author groups has been swift and furious after the Internet Archive announced last week the launch of its National Emergency Library, which has removed access restrictions for some 1.4 million scans of mostly 20th century books in the IA's Open Library initiative, making the scans available for unlimited borrowing during the Covid-19 Outbreak.  “We are stunned by the Internet Archive’s aggressive, unlawful, and opportunistic attack on the rights of authors and publishers in the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic," reads a March 27 statement from Association of American Publishers president and CEO Maria Pallante, adding that publishers are already "working tirelessly to support the public with numerous, innovative, and socially-aware programs that address every side of the crisis:  providing free global access to research and medical journals that pertain to the virus; complementary digital education materials to schools and parents; and expanding powerful storytelling platforms for readers of all ages."  Andrew Albanese   https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/copyright/article/82861-authors-guild-aap-outraged-by-ia-s-national-emergency-library.html

Copper is a trace mineral which you need to consume in small amounts to stay healthy.  Your body uses it for forming red blood cells and keeping your bones, nerves, blood vessels and immune system healthy.  Each ounce of 70 percent dark chocolate provides you with 0.5 milligrams of copper, which is 25 percent of the daily value of 2 milligrams for people following a 2,000-calorie diet.  Iron is another essential mineral.  It helps form red blood cells and plays a role in immune function, metabolism, brain development and temperature regulation.  Without sufficient iron, your body can't transport oxygen throughout your body to where it is needed.  Eating an ounce of dark chocolate provides you with 3.4 milligrams of iron, which is 19 percent of the DV of 18 milligrams.  Dark chocolate is also a source of zinc, with each ounce providing 0.9 milligrams, or 6 percent of the DV of 15 milligrams.  Zinc is needed for forming DNA and proteins, immune function, healing wounds, cell division and a proper sense of taste and smell.  Your body doesn't store zinc, so you need to consume a small amount each day.  https://healthyeating.sfgate.com/copper-iron-zinc-chocolate-5390.html  Thank you, Muse reader!

After you wash your hands, do not dry them completely.  While they are still damp, apply a little bit of hand lotion.  This will prevent them from getting dry, chapped, or cracking.  Your hands may remain a bit wet or sticky with the lotion.  If so, wave your hands in the air for a minute to safely air dry them.  2.  For some relevant reading material, try Boccacio’s Decameron, where noble Italians share stories while waiting out the plague.  Also, Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year.  Both are available for free download at Project Gutenberg at gutenberg.org  Thank you, Muse reader!

Handmade sanitizer:  Mix 2/3 cup 91% or 99% Rubbing Alcohol (Isopropyl Alcohol) and 1/3 cup Aloe Vera Gel.  Malia Karlinsky  http://seattlerefined.com/lifestyle/diy-hand-sanitizer

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2249  April 1, 2020

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