The Calder Gardens, a Philadelphia space for art by Alexander Calder is set to open in 2024.  Designed by the architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron, the Calder Gardens will be located within walking distance of the Barnes Foundation, near the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.  It’s set to be part of the Parkway Gardens, and it will house sculptures by the modernist artist, some of which will be shown in outdoor settings.  It contain views of the surrounding gardens and the Philadelphia cityscape, and are expected to provide visitors with new ways of seeing Calder’s sculptures that can’t be obtained in a white-cube setting.  It’s been envisioned as a tribute to the unusual nature of Calder’s abstract sculptures and mobiles, which shift dramatically depending on where and how one sees them.  Spanning 18,000 square feet, the Calder Gardens will likely host particularly sizable pieces, both indoors, where ceilings rise to 16 feet high, and outdoors.  The works on view, which will primarily be loans from museums and other collections, are expected to rotate over the years, and a checklist for the initial presentation has not yet been solidified, Rower said.  See graphics at https://www.artnews.com/gallery/art-news/news/calder-gardens-philadelphia-designs-1234638365/541_ci_2208_045_open-plan-gallery/ 

Trevor Noah (born 20 February 1984) is a South African comedian and television host, who is currently hosting The Daily Show, an American satirical news program on Comedy Central.  His father, Robert, is of Swiss-German ancestry, and his mother, Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah, is Xhosa.  Under apartheid legislation, Noah's mother was classified as Black, and his father was classified as White.  Noah himself was classified as Coloured.  At the time of his birth, his parents' interracial relationship was illegal, which Noah highlights in his autobiography.  Interracial sexual relations and marriages were not decriminalized until a year after his birth, when the Immorality Act was amended in 1985.  Noah began his career in South Africa in 2002.  He had several hosting roles with the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) and was the runner-up in the fourth season of South Africa's iteration of Strictly Come Dancing in 2008.  In 2014, Noah became the Senior International Correspondent for The Daily Show, and in 2015 succeeded long-time host Jon Stewart.  His autobiographical comedy book Born a Crime was published in 2016.  Noah has won various awards, including an MTV Africa Music Award and a Primetime Emmy Award from eleven nominations. He was named one of "The 35 Most Powerful People in New York Media" by The Hollywood Reporter in 2017 and 2018.  In 2018, Time magazine named him one of the hundred most influential people in the world.  In 2002, Noah had a small role on an episode of the South African soap opera Isidingo.  He later hosted his own radio show Noah's Ark on Gauteng's leading youth-radio station.  Noah speaks English, Afrikaans, Southern Sotho, Zulu, Xhosa, Tswana, Tsonga and some German.  In 1992, Noah's mother, Patricia Nombuyiselo, married Ngisaveni Abel Shingange; they had two sons together, Andrew and Isaac.  Shingange physically abused both Trevor and his mother, and the couple legally divorced in 1996.  In 2009, after Patricia married Sfiso Khoza, Shingange shot her in the leg and through the back of her head; she survived as the bullet went through the base of her head, avoiding the spinal cord, brain, and all major nerves and blood vessels, then exiting with minor damage to her nostril.  In 2011, Shingange was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced the following year to three years of correctional supervision.   Noah stated that he hoped the attention surrounding the incident would raise awareness of the broader issue of domestic violence in South Africa:  "For years my mother reached out to police for help with domestic abuse, and nothing was ever done.  This is the norm in South Africa.  Dockets went missing and cases never went to court."  In April 2018, he set up the Trevor Noah Foundation as a Johannesburg-based non-profit organization that equips orphans and vulnerable youth with the education, life skills, and social capital necessary to pursue further opportunities.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Noah 

Foxburg is a borough in Clarion County, Pennsylvania.  It is located along the east bank of the Allegheny River, about 2 miles (3 km) north of the mouth of the Clarion River.  As of the 2020 census it had a population of 181.  The town takes its name from the Fox family of Philadelphia, former owners of the land upon which the town was built. Samuel Mickle Fox (1763-1808), along with his brother George and brothers-in-law Joseph Parker Norris and George Roberts, purchased a number of tracts of land in western Pennsylvania from the Commonwealth during the 1790s.  Samuel's son Joseph purchased these tracts from his father's estate in 1816 and established a residence here ten years later.  This was south of the town near the mouth of the Clarion.  It became known to generations as "the Fox Mansion" or simply "the Mansion".  Succeeding generations would make it a seasonal residence for the next 140 years.  The town of Foxburg was founded amidst the oil developments in western Pennsylvania in 1870.  At its height during the early 1870s it had a population of over 1,000.  It remained a village until its incorporation as a borough on February 6, 1930.  The town is home to the nine-hole Foxburg Country Club, founded in 1887.  It has been recognized as the oldest continuously operated course in the United States.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxburg,_Pennsylvania 

September 9, 2022  Saji Daniel and Shannon McGauley never expected to land in the small Pennsylvania town of Foxburg.  For decades, the revitalization of Foxburg—with a population of roughly 180 people—had been the pet project of retired spinal surgeon Art Steffee.  Dr. Steffee owned a sprawling residential compound in the area and had invested millions of dollars into developing Foxburg.  Now, Dr. Steffee was 86 and looking to pass the baton.  A few days later, after a brief trip to Foxburg, Mr. Daniel agreed to buy Dr. Steffee’s home, known as the RiverStone Estate, which had been asking $15 million.  Then, over the next few months, he and Ms. McGauley agreed to acquire all of Dr. Steffee’s holdings in downtown Foxburg:  multiple local businesses and around 50 residential lots, all of which had quietly been on the market for a total of more than $3 million.  Before they knew it, they owned most of the town.  Since then, he and Ms. McGauley have invested over $500,000 in renovating downtown Foxburg, and plan on investing over $3 million in the next few years.  https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/first-they-purchased-a-house-then-they-bought-up-the-entire-town-01662661016 

Elizabethan

adjective  (comparative more Elizabethan, superlative most Elizabethan)  Pertaining to the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, monarch of England and Ireland, from 1558 to 1603. 

noun  (plural Elizabethans)  A person (especially a writer) who lived during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, monarch of England and Ireland, from 1558 to 1603.  A person who lived during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, monarch of the United Kingdom, from 1952 to 2022.  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Elizabethan#English

Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning British monarch, died September 8, 2022 aged 96. 

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