3/4/2018

Weekly Update 3/4/2018

I went to a great talk about John Muir in Bonaventure Cemetery at the Victorian Society on Tuesday evening. I’d heard Steve Willis talk about this before, and I’m trying to incorporate the story in my tours at the cemetery, so I was glad to hear it again and have some stories reinforced.

I went to a lecture on Etiquette at TLC on Wednesday. I am constantly amazed at how little of this applies any longer. Etiquette is simply respect, acting civilized and applying the Golden Rule. Yet, it is mostly ignored everywhere today. Ah, the good old days!

Thursday there was a talk about Art at Bonaventure at the Jepson Center. Amazingly, I think I knew half the people who attended, and the place was packed. I guess people who volunteer at BC wanted to go to this lecture. Although I think I know everything, I was surprised at how much I didn’t know.  

Friday was Kay’s birthday, so Adam and Anthony took her out for for dinner, and she would prefer that to drinks with me at The 90 – go figure! But it gave me an opportunity to attend the Tea With Mrs. Davenport performance at DH. I had been before a few years ago, but since its been a while (and also docents were invited to this showing for free – what’s not to like?) I went. Of course it was good. 

I have been to the Tybee Post Theater twice lately. Last Saturday night, I went out to see the movie Three Billboards outside of Ebbing Missouri. It was interesting, and Frances McDormand is always great. (a I also binge watched a new Netflix series, Seven Seconds, and I liked that very much. But between watching both these programs, my speech is even more fillled with f bombs). This Saturday, I went to a live performance by John Denver – well not really because he died in 1997. I’ve always liked his music, so when an entertainer was going to be at Tybee to sing his music, I went. Far Out