[Magdalen] Book I am now reading

[Grace Cangialosi]

Love Brother Cadfael...I’ll have to look for that one!

> On Aug 4, 2019, at 8:55 AM, Judy Fleener <fleenerj at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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