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Author, Amy Oestreicher has released her memoir, My Beautiful Detour: An Unthinkable Journey from Gutless to Grateful. Following a run at the famed Feinstein's/54 Below, and a nationwide tour of her multi-award winning musical, “Gutless & Grateful,” performer, playwright and four-time TEDx speaker Amy Oestreicher had almost lost her life.
Philomel Did you know that Annie Oakley had a cow called "Old Pink?" Or that she made her first quail trap out of cornstalks? Or that the very first time she picked up a rifle, she was able to shoot a walnut that was hanging off a tree? I know that because in the fifth grade my teacher, Mrs. Coleman, had a book called Annie Oakley by Ellen Wilson, and please don't tell anyone, but I borrowed it from the classroom library and somehow never returned it. (I am sure I meant to, I really am, but how Annie was so much like me ... really, I have no excuse). I must have read that book a ...
You've said on social media that Disney's Wishes fireworks display piqued your interest in orchestrations. When did you start to explore this interest and eventually pursue it professionally? I didn't grow up taking piano lessons from age 5, like so many of my colleagues did. I taught myself to play piano halfway through high school and became very obsessive about practicing it and becoming a good sight reader. I only am now, as an adult, fully understanding how influential this show has been. It all started after my freshman year of college. I didn't know what I was meant to do in New York ...
JonArno Lawson, illus. by Qin Leng. Candlewick, $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-5362-0147-5. Ages 3–7. A lonely girl and her grandparent need to fill the rundown apartment in their building. But taking over the quarters above their store will mean major renovations for the new occupants, and none of the potential renters can envision the possibilities of the space—until one special couple shows up. The book received a starred review from PW. Ray Anthony Shepard, illus. by Keith Mallett. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-30704-2. Ages 3–6. In a stunning picture book debut, ...
HCC students to perform virtual reading of play celebrating women’s suffrage Theater professor Pat Sandoval leads an acting class at Holyoke Community College in 2019. Submitted photo Published: 1/12/2021 5:30:06 PM HOLYOKE — Students from Holyoke Community College will perform a virtual staged reading of “Failure is Impossible,” a play celebrating women’s suffrage. The free performance, directed by HCC theater professor Pat Sandoval and history professor Diane Beers, will be hosted on Zoom on Thursday, starting at 6:30 p.m. in conjunction with Holyoke’s Wistariahurst Museum. Firs...