Dining with Squirrels

Absolutely fascinating documentary about the controversial take-over of perhaps the premier mid-century private art collection in the world, the Barnes Collection of suburban Philadelphia by the city’s powerful politicians, philanthropists, and power-brokers.  Karl grew up about 25 minutes from the Barnes Museum and I got to visit it when it was still there.  Every room […]

Another step outside the Jewish experience of WWII.  An insanely detailed account of the last few days of the Nazi occupation of Paris and the characters of its liberation.  Thanks for the loan, Dad.

subtitled A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, by Lauren Hillenbrand, author of Seabiscuit. Story of  Louie Zamperini, Olympic runner and apparent youthful hellion who lives through a Japanese concentration camp in WWII.  My first step out of the Jewish experience in World War II.  Those Japanese camps were just as bad.  […]