Friday, May 11, 2012
Check out the photos and read some trivia.
Did you miss your invitation to George Clooney's party Thursday in Studio City where President Obama was due to arrive? Or maybe you just didn't have $40,000 in spare change laying around for a ticket. So you weren't one of the lucky 150 guests going to the party Thursday night (and, uh, if you were, feel free to upload photos to this article), but attached is the video of Clooney's house, and the best photos of Clooney in his Fryman Canyon home that Patch can find. Call it a poor man's house tour. See the detailed video of a tour of his house above, and some secrets about his house. Also check out this video of the house, CLICK HERE. Here are some trivia items about his house too. * There are multiple bars throughout the house. * The …
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Friends and neighbors of Mr. Sendak in Ridgefield remember the author and his quirky sense of humor.
“But the wild things cried, 'Oh please don’t go—we’ll eat you up—we love you so!' And Max said, 'No!' The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved goodbye.” Ridgefield’s Maurice Sendak, who died Tuesday, was a man whose poetry and drawings inspired millions and touched childhoods worldwide, but whose small-town life was marked with deep personal friendships and a love for his community. Mr. Sendak, the children’s author who wrote and illustrated “Where The Wild Things Are,” among many other influential, genre-breaking works, had a way of writing stories that played with the fears and trials of …
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
The celebrated children's author was best known for his book "Where The Wild Things Are."
Ridgefield's famed children's book author and illustrator Maurice Sendak died Tuesday. The celebrated children's author, best known for his book "Where The Wild Things Are," was "widely considered the most important children’s book artist of the 20th century," the New York Times reports. The Times reports that Mr. Sendak died of complications from a recent stroke, according to his longtime editor, Michael di Capua. "Where The Wild Things Are" was published in 1963, and the story of a little boy named Max who sails into his dreams to have a "wild rumpus" with imaginative, sometimes nightmarish monsters was a bestseller. The Times described his work: "In book after book, Mr. Sendak upended the staid, centuries-old tradition of American …
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Here's how to make this popular cookie.
You can usually buy rainbow cookies in every bakery. They are not quite the all-American chocolate chip cookie, but they are very popular. I am not particularly a fan of jelly-filled cookies, so I don’t really care for the rainbow cookie. My daughter-in-law, Christine, happens to love them, so I thought I would try to make them for her. I have been buying them for her on occasion but decided to try baking them on my own. The recipes in my collection of cookbooks produce very large quantities and gives me the opportunity to see a recipe prepared various ways. Whether the cookbook is an instructional teaching cookbook like Betty Crocker or Good Housekeeping or handed-down recipes in an informal women’s group collection cookbook, the …
Killingworth native is chief operations officer for the New London-based lifesaving agency formed as a result of the Titanic disaster in 1912.
The iceberg that collided with the Titanic on April 14, 1912, was likely made of ice that was 3,000 to 6,000 years old and was one of 400 icebergs annually “calved” off the coast of Greenland. Prior to 1913, there was no systematic way of monitoring the potentially dangerous presence of icebergs in the North Atlantic shipping lanes. In the aftermath of the Titanic disaster, however, the International Ice Patrol was formed. Headquartered in New London at the U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center, the IIP has continuously monitored iceberg presence in the North Atlantic for the last 99 years. According to Lisa Mack, Coast Guard commander of the International Ice Patrol, members of the IIP have annually dropped two or three …
Saturday, April 14, 2012
The famous explorer unveiled a multimillion-dollar, state-of-the-art interactive exhibit at the Mystic Aquarium Wednesday that brings visitors up close to the search for and discovery of the RMS Titanic.
It was just past 11 o’clock in the morning Wednesday, and Dr. Robert Ballard—renowned international explorer and the discoverer of the most famous shipwreck in history—bounced from the bowels of his latest project at the Mystic Aquarium like he was on springs, flashing a wide grin and thrusting his hand at yet another in a long line of media members waiting to talk to him about the RMS Titanic. “Where’s Joe?” he chided the reporter when she told him which publication she was representing. “Joe’s on vacation!” replied the female reporter, who matched his enthusiasm. “Oh, so he’s letting you do this story? You’re Joe today!” Ballard had reason to be upbeat. He, along with aquarium and Sea Research Foundation officials, unveiled “Titanic—12,…
Richard D. Rabbett, a co-founder of the nonprofit SS United States Conservancy and a former board member of the Providence-based Steamship Historical Society of America, is one of a select few setting sail for the Titanic's final resting place to memorial
By Richard D. Rabbett "The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause." — French philosopher Henri Bergson (1859‐1941) This month, the world will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of RMS Titanic, the largest and most luxurious ocean liner in the world at the time of her loss from striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic on April 14, 1912. I will be among a very lucky few who will be out in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 14‐15 over the actual site of the Titanic wreck, 100 years later, to commemorate the many people who so tragically lost their lives in the disaster. Like so many others, I first learned of the Titanic tragedy as a child in grade school. As a …
Friday, April 13, 2012
Whether you're captivated by the story of the Titanic or not, you can't avoid the avalanche of film and television offerings commemorating the 100th anniversary of the ship's sinking.
When an anniversary as meaningful as a centennial comes around, you've got to expect a little fanfare and the inevitable TV special or two. But the 100-year anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic has brought new meaning to the term "commemoration." There's been hundreds of ceremonies in towns throughout the Eastern Seaboard, if not the country. There's been numerous Titanic-themed exhibits opening, including one in our backyard designed by Dr. Robert Ballard at the Mystic Aquarium. But most conspicuously, the past few weeks have seen a flood of tributes, commemorations and investigations on cable television channels up and down the dial. And, of course, the re-release of the James Cameron blockbuster "Titanic" in 3-D, which grossed more…
William T. Sloper of New Britain found a seat on the first lifeboat launched after the Titanic began sinking but was falsely accused of impersonating a woman to get the seat. He spent the rest of his life defending his reputation.
Anyone who knows anything about the Titanic disaster believes that there was a certain protocol for those who boarded the scarce lifeboats onboard the ill-fated ship—or was there? Actually, the “women or children only” rule was in effect only on the port side of the ship; “women or children first” was the rule on the starboard side. Furthermore, a 14-year-old girl in first class was considered a child; a 14-year-old girl in third class was considered an adult. These variations in protocol are important in understanding the sad case of William Thompson Sloper, a 28-year old stockbroker from New Britain who survived the sinking. Check out the some of the items that sank with the Titanic Son of Andrew Jackson Sloper, a New Britain bank …
Thursday, April 12, 2012
The cargo manifest on the ill-fated ship was as diverse and interesting as the passenger list was.
Despite the common belief that there were mostly British, Irish and American citizens aboard the RMS Titanic, the truth is that 29 different nationalities were onboard. The cargo manifest for the Titanic contained articles as diverse as the nationalities of the people onboard the ill-fated ship. Consider the following items that went to the bottom along with the ship: Three very rare books were also lost to the sea. Harry Elkins Widener, a 1907 Harvard graduate and an avid book collector, had purchased several rare books to bring home on the Titanic, including a very rare first edition of essays by Francis Bacon. Harry saw to it that his mother and her maid were safely placed in a lifeboat and then stepped back. Later, William Carter …
Kevin
12:19 pm on Saturday, April 28, 2012
Richard, Jane Carr was also a grand aunt of mine. Although I live in New York now, my family back home in Ireland did attend a memorial service 2 weeks ago in Tubbercurry for Jane. Kevin Kennedy more ›