tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49251168612945228112024-03-05T23:48:40.161-08:00booksmadlynfafardSmall Town America, Framingham, a memoir. Travel with me as a 'little detective' trying to make sense of a life few now know. There was a time when some people were afraid to drive a car! When no one wanted a dryer, clothes smelled so good drying out on the line. We had a rag man, milk and bread were delivered, along with coal and ice. The war changed all our lives, before, during and after! Learn so much more, through my eyes way long ago!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07598590966874367431noreply@blogger.comBlogger262125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4925116861294522811.post-16833254941971272762015-10-17T10:44:00.001-07:002015-10-17T10:44:02.097-07:00"Precocious kids" reading material "Plotted"<div data-jsclass="articlePhoto" data-ajaxsrc="components/article-photo.html" data-deliver="ajax" id="photo-2" tag="div" class="embed-table-left" data-table="ARTICLE" data-row="68383" data-photo="2" data-width="185" style="clear: left; overflow: auto; float: none; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 1px; width: 100% !important;"><div class="image-wrapper" data-jsclass="imageWrapper" style="position: relative; width: 374px; height: 247px; overflow: hidden; background-image: url(http://www.publishersweekly.com/lazy.gif);"><img src="http://www.publishersweekly.com/images/cached/ARTICLE_PHOTO/photo/000/000/036/36224-v1-185x.JPG" data-lazysrc="/images/cached/ARTICLE_PHOTO/photo/000/000/036/36224-v1-185x.JPG" data-width="185" data-height="247" data-max-width="185" data-max-height="247" id="ARTICLE_PHOTO.36224" style="text-align: start; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 185px; height: 247px;"></div><div class="caption" style="padding: 0px; width: 185px;"></div></div><p class="article" style="padding-right: 10px;"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/9781936976867" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;"><em>Plotted: A Literary Altas </em></a>by Andrew DeGraff, with essays by Daniel Harmon (Zest) - llustrator DeGraff has created a collection of maps that are paired with essays by Harmon (Super Pop!), illuminating classic works of literature in fun and appealing new ways. Through these intricate and inventive illustrations, DeGraff seeks to create visual representations for some of his favorite works that "provide a sense of contour—sometimes literal and sometimes metaphorical." Many of the stories depicted are from classic works of children's literature (such as <em>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</em> and <em>A Wrinkle in Time</em>), and all are plotted intricately with vibrant colors. DeGraff also includes sophisticated renderings from the works of Shakespeare, Kafka, Borges, Homer, Austen, and Verne. Some representations are maps in the common sense, with DeGraff tracing the movements of Odysseus around the Mediterranean, Scrooge and company around London, or Hamlet et al. through the rooms of Elsinore castle. Some feature diagrams, such as the depiction of the Pequod from <em>Moby-Dick</em>, while others are more abstract, making this a complete, rewarding package for bookworms of all ages.</span></font></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07598590966874367431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4925116861294522811.post-85873468736943205992015-10-17T10:39:00.001-07:002015-10-17T10:39:59.699-07:00The Lake House ( looks good)<div data-jsclass="articlePhoto" data-ajaxsrc="components/article-photo.html" data-deliver="ajax" id="photo-7" tag="div" class="embed-table-left" data-table="ARTICLE" data-row="68383" data-photo="7" data-width="185" style="clear: left; overflow: auto; float: none; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 1px; width: 100% !important;"><div class="image-wrapper" data-jsclass="imageWrapper" style="position: relative; width: 374px; height: 279px; overflow: hidden; background-image: url(http://www.publishersweekly.com/lazy.gif);"><img src="http://www.publishersweekly.com/images/cached/ARTICLE_PHOTO/photo/000/000/036/36229-v1-185x.JPG" data-lazysrc="/images/cached/ARTICLE_PHOTO/photo/000/000/036/36229-v1-185x.JPG" data-width="185" data-height="279" data-max-width="185" data-max-height="279" id="ARTICLE_PHOTO.36229" style="text-align: start; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 185px; height: 279px;"></div><div class="caption" style="padding: 0px; width: 185px;"></div></div><p class="article" style="padding-right: 10px;"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/9781451649321" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;"><em>The Lake House </em></a>by Kate Morton (Atria) - Bestselling storyteller Morton (<em>The Secret Keeper</em>) excels in this mystery set against the gothic backdrop of 1930s England. In Cornwall, the wealthy Edevane family prepares for its annual midsummer ball at Loeanneth, their isolated estate. That night, teenager Alice Edevane is lingering near the nursery when someone kidnaps the cherished Edevane son, Theo; despite a lengthy investigation, he is never found. The story moves forward to 2003 London, where Det. Sgt. Sadie Sparrow is suspended after speaking to the media about a missing-person case, recently closed, that haunts her. Sparrow seeks refuge with her grandfather in Cornwall. On her first morning run there, she finds the now-dilapidated Loeanneth mansion deep in the woods. Curious, Sparrow peers through the windows into tumbledown rooms abandoned in haste long ago. She begins to investigate the 70-year-old Edevane case with help from the Cornwall locals, including a retired copper who was there in 1933 when Theo disappeared. Morton’s plotting is impeccable, and her finely wrought characters, brought together in the end by Sparrow’s investigation, are as surprised as readers will be by the astonishing conclusion.</span></font></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07598590966874367431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4925116861294522811.post-8933800591377431822015-03-23T23:51:00.001-07:002015-03-23T23:51:53.022-07:00Madlyn Fafard,: Front porch ,memories of times past<a href="http://madlynfafard.blogspot.com/2015/03/front-porch-memories-of-times-past.html?m=1">Madlyn Fafard,: Front porch ,memories of times past</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07598590966874367431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4925116861294522811.post-13305134937462448852015-03-09T11:14:00.001-07:002015-05-21T11:19:47.632-07:00Five Came Back, Mark Harris, a wonderful peek at the culture and history of the time...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07598590966874367431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4925116861294522811.post-42634990202850031742015-02-15T13:24:00.001-08:002015-02-15T13:24:14.835-08:00Isnt it Romantic Michael Feinstein<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3LqA_3ERy9w" width="459"></iframe>This is probably my favorite , just listen to the voice, the arrangement and see if you agree....beautiful presentation...... the qulity of his voice is perfect....Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07598590966874367431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4925116861294522811.post-28147499134801638022015-02-15T13:02:00.000-08:002015-02-15T13:02:35.607-08:00Wow! Michael Feinstein reviews THE B SIDE...by Ben Yagoda. in New York Times Book Review 2/15/2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
What a pleasant surprise, because I happen to think that Michael Feinstein has "it" as a musician. What a treat to find he had written a review of this book that talks about the great music we had from the 1920's to the 1950's, which I love and blog about on my other blog, Madlyn Fafard , Lifes a Blast!<br />
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The loss of the great music of the past was a combination of the bosses, and the artists, of the time, and I remember the arrogance of some of my friends, which probably reflected the opinion of others. I happened to love all types of music, and if I said that I loved a country song, I was considered a country bumpkin by my Northeast friends...( back when we were teens), and who would listen to to opera? Who liked jazz...?<br />
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But, what woke me up back then was Les Paul and his new sound....that is when I finally realized that the piano was on the way out and the guitar was on the way in as the instrument of choice, never dreaming that the piano would never again eclipse the guitar. ( at least it seems that way)<br />
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If you check my blog there were great singers in the 60's that get little credit, like Don Cherry, he had a wonderful voice, I played his records over and over.... Billy Eckstein was still around, ohhh! great singing and of course Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughn.... and jazz was catching on more and more, and lives big time today in my world....<br />
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Finally got around to finishing one of the two books I am reading, with three more lined up and one on order, I am so busy....I have not been reading enough to keep up...you know how that is with the i phone taking all my time....so this week, I slow down the i phone and start up reading more...<br />
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The different views presented here, helped to solidify what I believe, and I think that is the major reason for enjoying this book, to learn other opinions and ideas and expand your own thinking. A funny thing happened as I read the book, I recalled a scene in my philosophy class, I could see my professor of many years ago, who said in the class...."matter is not real, it is consciousness that makes it real, you better believe it is real" This thought kept crossing my mind as I read this book and then one day as telling my 9 year old grand daughter stories of my youth, I ran out of stories ...and I said to her<br />"Did you know that matter is not real, it is created by consciousness?"<br />"Wow, Nannie!" was the response.<br />I had to laugh about that for a long time, and ponder how to tell children that the world is a creation of consciousness, so that they can use the tool to help us make a better world...If in fact, it is a world created by consciousness, as I believe it is. I think learning to express love is the major reason for consciousness, along with other emotions of goodness, and to do that we have to have an antagonist...need I say more?<br /><br />So, for the lay reader, it took a couple of weeks to go back and forth finding time to read and finish the book, though I was reading two books at the time, it was interesting enough to pick this one to finish first. The other book I am reading and close to finish is, "Thank You For Arguing" surprising how easy it is to win an election based on knowing the points in this book, more to come..</div>
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A wonderful adventurous book, ride, walk, and just encounter the hinterlands of France and the adventure of becoming a country, united by a language. It was not easy, nor was the unification of a country and it"s language. All roads led to Paris, and thus the unification began.<br />
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Crossing the Alps was an adventure and although the Grand Tour was not mentioned it was easily alluded to in the crossing of the Alps. The horses could not make some of the steep inclines, so a donkey was brought along . The coach would be taken apart, and the donkey would haul it on a travois over the top of the incline, where it would be reassembled for the harrowing ride down the mountain. Robert Louis Stevenson and others took the Grand Tour in this manner, across the Alps to Italy, and back.<br />
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Superstition and lack of communication led to the death of one of Cassini's map makers. Spas grew up where people came to take the waters and fed by towns anxious for income more business grew up around the spas. Gossip could travel faster than man, one wondered how that could happen?<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07598590966874367431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4925116861294522811.post-52087431344738916372014-05-24T10:45:00.001-07:002014-05-24T10:45:42.442-07:00Madlyn Fafard,: DMT The Spirit Molecule, reviewed by me on Amazon<a href="http://madlynfafard.blogspot.com/2014/05/dmt-spirit-molecule-reviewed-by-me-on.html#links">Madlyn Fafard,: DMT The Spirit Molecule, reviewed by me on Amazon</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07598590966874367431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4925116861294522811.post-47365587452595352582014-05-24T10:44:00.001-07:002014-05-24T10:44:21.502-07:00Madlyn Fafard,: Margaret Mead a wonder woman to me as a teen<a href="http://madlynfafard.blogspot.com/2014/05/margaret-mead-wonder-woman-to-me-as-teen.html#links">Madlyn Fafard,: Margaret Mead a wonder woman to me as a teen</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07598590966874367431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4925116861294522811.post-24030561514047339532014-05-22T10:12:00.001-07:002014-05-22T10:12:41.195-07:00Double Cross, book review<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Double Cross, Ben Macintyre<br />
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This is my review on Amazon<br />
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What stands out in my personal review of the book,( a different approach I guess), is that even the spy controllers were stealing money off the top. A spy would ask for money and it would come from his handler less the handlers cut. Money was always necessary, and it was amazing how easy it was to get. At one point the Germans were making payments to a bank in the United States for their spy ( our double agent) to draw on....Just another ridiculous thing about wars....for what? What gain.? Of course the thrill of being a spy and getting away with it had to be part of what was going on. Yet, everyday they risked death, if they got caught. Another standout in my mind was the fact that for periods of time, no one paid attention to the spy messages coming in.<br />
It was laughable that the spy in Spain could make up so much and get away with it, while getting paid.<br />
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For the love of a dog, we almost blew it! Yes, we could make miracles, but we could not get this spy's dog into Britain, due to animal regulations...ha ha....the pettiness of it in war time, when an out of place pause in conversation could be a sign that the message was a lie....<br />
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It was fun to read, especially if you like history and have an interest in the 2nd World War. </div>
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In 1957 from the Golden Jubillee brochure.<br />
Founded by Reverend Pietro Maschi in 1907 <br />
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This is from the brochure<br />
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There was a terrible disaster in Framingham, in July, 1906. The tragic work of digging out the victims of the disaster, spread thru the area, and one of the first volunteers was Rev. Maschi, who was attached to Sacred Heart Church in the North End, of Boston. Rev. Maschi had been in Framingham on many occasions visiting relatives, so he knew the area.<br />
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When the Amsden building fell he was notified by phone, arriving at the still smoking ruins as a victim was being carried out, Father Maschi bent over the broken body of the victim , for the last rites.<br />
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"His face paled as he looked down and discovered the victim was his own brother, Romualdo Maschi, a construction worker and the father of a young family."<br />
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From that moment on Father Maschi became determined to bring an Italian Mission Church to Framingham, and that is how we have a Mission Church in Framingham.<br />
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From the Framinghan Tribune, May 29, 1902<br />
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"Andrew Lepardo, foreman of the construction gang for the Westboro, Hopkinton Street Railway Company leased a house on Winter Street to house 100 Italian laborers, who arrived to the work..."<br />
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"The Padrone's were promising jobs and "streets paved with gold." <br />
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The Framingham Tribune, March 5, 1903<br />
"An Italian working on the Weston Aquaduct was kicked in the forehead by a mule and died. He had been working there for a short while, so was known only by a number, thus it was difficult to ascertain his name...."<br />
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Tid bits from a paper I did on <em>The History of the Social Development of the Italian Immigrant in Framingham, Mass</em>., at Framinghan State College, 1967, Madlyn Pizzeri ( Fox) Fafard</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07598590966874367431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4925116861294522811.post-63591795929832765162013-10-18T12:40:00.001-07:002013-10-18T12:40:32.726-07:00My Choice 52 - André Rieu - Toselli's Serenade<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/VTCawdBmxoM" width="459"></iframe>A tribute to Pear Oliver, whose Dad started the Italian hour on our Framingham radio station in its early days. Every Sunday this song would announce the show.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07598590966874367431noreply@blogger.com0