Tag: Furman U

• Three Graduations and a Funeral, part 1, 1-5 May 2024: Class of 1974 Reunion

  4 June 2024 As I compose this account of my 3440-mile Southern Sojourn of last month, I am of course considering what happened then in light of what’s happening now.  Last evening I watched a mother snapping turtle make her way up from the woods to our lower yard, where after a couple of false…

  georgeannmurphy

  June 7, 2024

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  50th college reunion, Anne Friddle, Furman U, Gray Moon, Greenville SC, memories, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, travel, turtle laying eggs, Virginia Apartments

• Hinge Moment

  31 May 2024 In his essay collection Languages of Truth, Salman Rushdie proposed that there are “hinge moments” in history when “everything is in flux . . . [and] the future is up for grabs.”  Rushdie wrote:  “When one lives at a hinge moment in history, as we do, as Shakespeare did when he wrote…

  georgeannmurphy

  May 31, 2024

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  Angels in America, Apollinaire Theatre Company, Chelsea Theatre, Furman U, Portland Stage, reviews, Salman Rushdie, Shakespeare, Smoky Mountains, theatre, Touching the Void, Trump conviction, Western Carolina U