Simon Newman

Congratulations Karin! Really looking forward to your online book talk on Thursday at www.congregationallibrary.org/events/lineage

Obituary for Reginald Horsman at Feerick Funeral Home Reginald Horsman, a distinguished scholar and beloved husband, father and professor, passed away peacefully in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on August 20th, 2025, at the age of 93. He was surrounded by his lo...

Tonight I am thinking of Reg Horsman. He taught me when I started grad school 43 years ago, and I was often his teaching assistant. Remembering many late nights, and many, many games of darts. RIP Reg. www.feerickfuneralhome.com/obituary/reg...

My story is just like your’s (and at the same universities🙂): a grant funding my undergraduate education, and then fellowships funding my graduate education in the USA. Nothing that I have achieved since then would have been possible without this support.

Basil plants went crazy this summer. No problem

You both look wonderful! Congratulations!

Congratulations!

Variation on a Provençal Tomato Squash Gratin, with heritage and plum tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, basil and thyme from the garden.

CLEO LAINE – London Pride (1976, HD) Dailymotion video by Jürgen Grunewald

And that my father, who lived through the Blitz, sometimes cried as he listened to her sing “London Pride.” (Listen to the end to hear the full range of her magnificent four octave voice). Rest in Peace Dame Cleo. www.dailymotion.com/video/x29uw71

As a child my mother had listened to Dame Cleo and her husband Johnnie Dankworth practicing in the house next to my great grandmother’s house in London’s East End.

Somehow I had missed that Dame Cleo Laine had left us, at the grand age of 97. I met her at Winfield House in London, at an event honoring Dave Brubeck, and she was lovely. I was able to tell her that I had grown up listening to her music.

Cana Island, Door County, Wisconsin. Calm.

I am so sorry. You are in my thoughts.

Always happy to be back in Door County. The Wisconsin land of 🍒

Very sorry to hear this, and keeping my fingers crossed that a good new opportunity will soon appear.

On a day when the world seems even crazier than usual, I hope people find a little peace and joy in the scenery I have been taking in. The Atlantic coast of County Kerry. 🇮🇪

I will miss many things and many people in Providence. This is near the top of the list…

Lovely afternoon tea to say goodbye to friends in Providence, in the beautiful Nightingale Brown house, where we have had offices.

Picture of cherry and nectarine pie

Picture of apricot tarte tatin

Dessert at Al Forno in Providence this evening. Blissful.

When in Rhode Island…

An unexpected visitor to Brown President Paxson’s house this morning. File under unexpected sightings in Providence…

Always great to catch up with Peter Onuf, the Great Conceptualizer, and a lovely human being.

Closer to Van Eyck The Ghent Altarpiece

Absolutely wonderful closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be/ghentaltarpi...

Great lecture on the antebellum origins of American business ethics by @sethrockman.bsky.social

I really miss Bluebell Woods in Glasgow’s Pollok Park. What a lovely painting.

Just what I needed this morning. Thank you Annette!

Back in Burlington, VT, for the first time in decades. As beautiful as I remember.

Wonderful!

Wonderful, congratulations to you all!

Join us on Sat., 22 Feb. at the Charles River Museum (154 Moody St., Waltham) where @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social will accept the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize for *Murder in a Mill Town.* @manionjen.bsky.social will join him in conversation.

Register: www.masshist.org/events/peter...

Wonderful event at Brown University bookstore. @sethrockman.bsky.social interviewing @theotherrbg.bsky.social about her book Dear Miss Perkins.