April 3 from Les Wollam: We are touring Spain & in the photo we are in Gibraltar off the bottom of Spain. We took a cable car to the top of the rock. We have been to Madrid, Toledo, Cordoba, Granada, Gibraltar & will end in Sevilla. Sevilla is where I lived for 2 years – 1959 – 61 when my father worked for the US Air Force. It’s a very important city for me as that is where I got interested in photography. I have been back 3 times before this but this is first time for Charlotte.
Books recommended by our members during the Summer Lectures:
The Frozen River: A Novel, by Aerial Lawhon. It is based on a true story about a midwife in Maine in the 1800’s. This woman delivered over a thousand babies and never lost a mother. The author’s in-laws live in Sun City.
Across Five Aprils, by Irene Hunt.
War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East, by Gershom Gorenberg.
The Alice Network, by Kate Quinn
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive, by L. J. Adlington
D-Day Girls: The Spies who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II, by Sarah Rose
Remarkably Bright Creatures: A Novel, by Shelby Van Pelt
Keep the Memories, Reduce the Clutter, by Matt Paxton
Beaver Land: How One Weird Rodent Made America, by Leila Philip
The Island of Sea Women, by Lisa See
The Nobility of Our Hearts, by our LLGTX member Kim Hovanky
The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by T. E. Lawrence (In preparation for the September lectures?)