The Ashcan School was a loosely defined group of American artists working at the turn of the 20th century.  Their work began in Philadelphia towards the end of the 19th century, but they are best known for the works they produced later, after moving to New York at the start of the 20th century.  While the ranks of the Ashcan School are not strictly defined, Robert Henri is often considered to be the leading force of the Ashcan School of art, with some of the other most prominent members including John Sloan, George Bellows, Everett Shinn, George Luks, and William Glackens.  Truman Chambers.  See graphics at https://www.thecollector.com/aschan-school-paintings/

Ukha (Russian: “Уха”) is an extremely popular Russian fish soup.  Throughout the country, you’ll find different variations of it, with many restaurants serving it the traditional way with fish heads.  Ukha is light, herby, and full of fresh fish flavor.  The texture of ukha consists of sliky broth, tender salmon, and chunky veggies.  Consider it the chicken noodle soup of fish soup!  From start to finish, the soup takes about 50 minutes to make.  Posted by Natalya  https://momsdish.com/recipe/708/fish-soup-aka-ukha   

Vincent Price demonstrated his bread pudding recipe at the 1986 National Conference of Gastronomy.  https://www.cooks.com/recipe/xf8br76b/vincent-pricess-rancho-bernardo-inn-bread-pudding.html   

Robert Lewis (later:  “Louis”) Balfour Stevenson was born in Edinburgh on 13 November 1850.  His father Thomas belonged to a family of engineers who had built many of the deep-sea lighthouses around the rocky coast of Scotland.  His mother, Margaret Isabella Balfour, came from a family of lawyers and church ministers.  Stevenson has an important place in the history of the short story in the British Isles:  the form had been elaborated and developed in America, France and Russia from the mid-19th century, but it was Stevenson who initiated the British tradition.  His first published fictional narrative was “A Lodging for the Night” (1877), a short story originally published in a magazine, like other early narrative works, such as “The Sire De Malétroit’s Door” (1877), “Providence and the Guitar” (1878), and “The Pavilion on the Links” (1880, considered by Conan Doyle in 1890 as “the high-water mark of [Stevenson’s] genius” and “the first short story in the world” (Menikoff 1990, p. 342).  These four tales were collected in a volume entitled New Arabian Nights in 1882, preceded by the seven linked stories originally called “Latter-Day Arabian Nights” when published in a magazine in 1878.  This collection is seen as the starting point for the history of the English short story by Barry Menikoff (1987, p. 126).  http://robert-louis-stevenson.org/life/  See also https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1994/11/the-double-life-of-robert-louis-stevenson/306474/

The Dana Open Presented by Marathon is one of the longest running events on the LPGA Tour.  The Dana Open was founded in 1984 and has been played yearly, except in 1986 and 2011, in Sylvania, Ohio.  Over the past 36 years, the tournament has raised $13 million for more than 200 local children’s charities.  This year the event will be played from August 29th-September 4th, 2022 at Highland Meadows Golf Club.  https://danaopen.com/tournament-info/   

The Dana Open (formerly the Marathon Classic) is a professional women’s golf tournament, part of the LPGA Tour.  It was founded in 1984 by PGA Tour caddie and Toledo native Judd Silverman, who wanted to bring a women’s golf tournament to the area.  It began life as the Jamie Farr Toledo Classic–M*A*S*H actor Jamie Farr, also a Toledo native, lent his name to the event and invited other celebrities to attend.  History was made at the 1999 edition when Se Ri Pak won the largest playoff in LPGA history, contested by 6 players.  Japan's Nasa Hataoka is the reigning champion after she won by 6 shots in 2021 ahead of Americans Elizabeth Szokol and Mina Harigae.  https://www.koobit.com/dana-open-e1470   

Author-illustrator Raymond Briggs, best-known for his 1978 classic The Snowman, has died at the age of 88.  His death was confirmed by his family, in a statement on August 10, 2022.  The Snowman was turned into a Bafta TV award-winning animated TV film in 1982.  Briggs' original wordless children's picture book, The Snowman, finished the runner-up for the Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a British writer.  It has gone on to sell more than 5.5m copies in various formats around the world.  The TV film adaptation, which also received an Oscar nomination for best animated short film, told the story of a young boy, waking up after a heavy snowfall and building a large snowman who later magically comes to life.  He became a professional illustrator, working in advertising, and then creating books as well as teaching illustration at Brighton College of Art.  His 1966 book of nursery rhymes, The Mother Goose Treasury, won the Kate Greenaway medal.  https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-62490170

It’s the last supermoon of the year in 2022, and this one is just as beautiful as the “super flower blood moon,” the “strawberry moon” and the “buck” or “thunder” moon.  It’s the “sturgeon moon,” and it was seen on Thursday night, Aug. 11.

Why is it named after a species of fish?  From USA TODAY:  It “[earned] its name from the Farmer’s Almanac because of the type of fish that was easily caught this time of year.”  Charles Curtis  See stunning photos at https://ftw.usatoday.com/gallery/sturgeon-moon-2022-supermoon-photos-amazing

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2551  August 12, 2022