[Magdalen] Book I am now reading

[Judy Fleener]

Where the Crawdads Sing is so backed up in my library, i gave up and bought
the book.  It is next for me after I finish a reread of a Brother Cadfael
book, One Corpse Too Many.

On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 12:01 PM Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>


-- 
Judy Fleener, ObJN,SSH
Western Michigan