Pittsburgh Pridefest is just one week away. In addition to our booth at the festival that we have every year, the ARL also has a float in the parade this year! The picture is just a preview of what you can expect from us!
In honor of both Richard Dawson’s passing and a certain Kevin Costner-starring miniseries on The History Channel, here’s the greatest individual moment in television history: The descendants of the Hatfields and McCoys playing one another on Family Feud. You’re welcome.
“Elizabeth is 18,” Life magazine, April 1942. Story here.
On April 21 Princess Elizabeth of England is having her 18th birthday and receives her 18th birthday pearl from her father. If England were at peace, she’d have a great ball. However, she gets her own “household,” meaning one lady in waiting, in addition to the maid and footman that she already shares with her sister Margaret. She also acquires the right to act as councilor of state or senior regent in case her father falls ill or leaves the country. In short, at last she becomes a Royal Personage.
Posted in celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee this weekend, I found this a few years ago among piles of Life magazines at the Hanna’s Town flea market. What else?
- At 18, Elizabeth (“Betts”) controls her income of $24,000 per year and inheritances of “unknown amounts,” but only handles a pound ($4) a week, the rest in the hands of the Queen’s treasurer.
- She has two fur coats and uses her mother’s designer, Norman Hartnell.
- She’s had one ride in a London subway but has never ridden the bus or been in a movie house.
What I ate this week.
![Two girls with former slave Sabre “Mother” Washington, Pittsburgh, early 1950s. Teenie Harris. [Carnegie Museum of Art]
One of the girls, a neighbor of Washington’s, discovered the photograph years later. Washington, who grew up in South Carolina before moving to Pittsburgh, passed away in 1960 at the age of 113.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2119h1q9S1qakblyo1_500.jpg)
Two girls with former slave Sabre “Mother” Washington, Pittsburgh, early 1950s. Teenie Harris. [Carnegie Museum of Art]
One of the girls, a neighbor of Washington’s, discovered the photograph years later. Washington, who grew up in South Carolina before moving to Pittsburgh, passed away in 1960 at the age of 113.
(Source: thepittsburghhistoryjournal)
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: May 23, 1966
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, built for magnant Edgar Kaufmann, is deemed a National Landmark. [Wikipedia]
4.18.12
Someone just showed up at work and handed one of my co-workers this plate of wrapped cookies saying “For national library week I made cookies of my favorite book for you guys.” (they’re from a legit bakery btdubs) So the favorite book ended up being The Great Gatsby, to which I squeed over but my coworkers in the clerical section were kind of “whatever.” I thought they would last a while since they were so nice, I was wrong… people are vultures around food. I did get one, as a cookie it was okay.
Great afternoon at the Warhol. Baby Andrew Warhola with his mother and brother; Warhol as a student at Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh Pridefest is just one week away. In addition to our booth at the festival that we have every year, the ARL also has a float in the parade this year! The picture is just a preview of what you can expect from us!
In honor of both Richard Dawson’s passing and a certain Kevin Costner-starring miniseries on The History Channel, here’s the greatest individual moment in television history: The descendants of the Hatfields and McCoys playing one another on Family Feud. You’re welcome.
“Elizabeth is 18,” Life magazine, April 1942. Story here.
On April 21 Princess Elizabeth of England is having her 18th birthday and receives her 18th birthday pearl from her father. If England were at peace, she’d have a great ball. However, she gets her own “household,” meaning one lady in waiting, in addition to the maid and footman that she already shares with her sister Margaret. She also acquires the right to act as councilor of state or senior regent in case her father falls ill or leaves the country. In short, at last she becomes a Royal Personage.
Posted in celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee this weekend, I found this a few years ago among piles of Life magazines at the Hanna’s Town flea market. What else?
- At 18, Elizabeth (“Betts”) controls her income of $24,000 per year and inheritances of “unknown amounts,” but only handles a pound ($4) a week, the rest in the hands of the Queen’s treasurer.
- She has two fur coats and uses her mother’s designer, Norman Hartnell.
- She’s had one ride in a London subway but has never ridden the bus or been in a movie house.
What I ate this week.
![Two girls with former slave Sabre “Mother” Washington, Pittsburgh, early 1950s. Teenie Harris. [Carnegie Museum of Art]
One of the girls, a neighbor of Washington’s, discovered the photograph years later. Washington, who grew up in South Carolina before moving to Pittsburgh, passed away in 1960 at the age of 113.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2119h1q9S1qakblyo1_1280.jpg)
Two girls with former slave Sabre “Mother” Washington, Pittsburgh, early 1950s. Teenie Harris. [Carnegie Museum of Art]
One of the girls, a neighbor of Washington’s, discovered the photograph years later. Washington, who grew up in South Carolina before moving to Pittsburgh, passed away in 1960 at the age of 113.
(Source: thepittsburghhistoryjournal)
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: May 23, 1966
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, built for magnant Edgar Kaufmann, is deemed a National Landmark. [Wikipedia]
4.18.12
Someone just showed up at work and handed one of my co-workers this plate of wrapped cookies saying “For national library week I made cookies of my favorite book for you guys.” (they’re from a legit bakery btdubs) So the favorite book ended up being The Great Gatsby, to which I squeed over but my coworkers in the clerical section were kind of “whatever.” I thought they would last a while since they were so nice, I was wrong… people are vultures around food. I did get one, as a cookie it was okay.
Great afternoon at the Warhol. Baby Andrew Warhola with his mother and brother; Warhol as a student at Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh.
