[Magdalen] Book I am now reading

[Grace Cangialosi]

I finally got my reserved copy of “Where the Crawdads Sing” yesterday and stayed up nearly all night reading it. What a book! Of course, when I had to get up at 6 to give my daughter’s horse his medicine, I wasn’t so happy!

> On Aug 3, 2019, at 11:52 AM, Gillian Barr <gillian.barr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> A friend of mine works in historical aircraft restoration. When working on
> the Enola Gay they had to wear Geiger counters—not because of the nuclear
> bomb she dropped, but because of the radium on the instrument dials.
> 
> Popping out of lurkdom,
> 
> Gillian Barr
> Stonington CT
> 
>> On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 11:39 AM Dorothy Collman <dac7792 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Our September selection for my church's Ladies Literary Fellowship is
>> "Radium Girls" by Kate Moore. It tells the story of the young women who
>> worked painting clock faces in the early 20th century and were fatally
>> poisoned by the radium in the paint.
>> 
>> <https://www.sourcebooks.com/radium-girls.html>
>> 
>> When I was living in Watford I took a pottery class at the local technical
>> college. The instructor told us not to eat, drink or smoke in the classroom
>> because of the possibility of getting some of the chemicals into our
>> mouths. The raw glazes contained lead, tin, cobalt, et al. Toxic, but not
>> radioactive.
>> 
>> - - -
>> Dorothy Collman
>> Home: DottieAnne at aol.com
>> List: dac7792 at gmail.com
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jul 29, 2019, at 10:28 AM, cantor03--- via Magdalen <
>> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Someone was rummaging through some old storage areas of the\local
>> Wilkes-Barre City Hall and found four 9' diameter clock faces in a
>> cubbyhole  there.
>>> It was determined that they were from the Luzerne County Court
>> Housewhich had a tall clock tower and clock complete with bells to mark
>> thehours.  That court house building had been raised and the site made
>>> into a public square in 1909.  The innards of the clock, made of iron
>> andsteel were melted down in 1942 for the WW-2 effort.
>>> Court houses in general in Pennsylvania tend to rival many state
>> capitolbuildings, and are the source of much pride.  The new Luzerne
>> CountyCourt House is domed with four wings, and has a very
>> impressiveinterior not unlike the PA Capitol building down the road at
>> Harrisburg.
>>> 
>> 
>> --
> Gillian R. Barr
> Providence, RI