The Festival of Winter Walks, is from the third Saturday of December to the first Sunday of January. This annual celebration is held in England, to embrace winter and the outdoors. We are right in the middle of this festival season, so dress warm and take a hike. To help identify trees in the coldContinue reading “December 27″A Winter Wonderland””
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April 23 Hamlet:”Did you think I meant country matters?”
Today, April 23rd is World Reading Day. What better day to read a little Shakespeare. Not only is he considered the best of English writers, it is his birthday. April 23rd is when they celebrate both the birth and the death of William Shakespeare (born 1564 died 1616). Scholars are not sure of his birthContinue reading “April 23 Hamlet:”Did you think I meant country matters?””
March 15 “Friends, Romans, countrymen…”
Soothsayer: “Beware the Ides of March.” Caesar: “The Ides of March are come.” Soothsayer: “ay, Caesar; but not gone.” The above is a passage from Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare. Caesar is bantering with a soothsayer, saying that the Ides of March have come, but nothing has happened. The soothsayer reminds Caesar that the dayContinue reading “March 15 “Friends, Romans, countrymen…””
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