Arts - period ended 5.15.2006

Arts/Theater/Violence//Postcard from Broadway: 'The Lieutenant of Inishmore'/Orlando Sentinel/Orlando/FL/USA/7-May-06/AP/... The Lieutenant of Inishmore can leave you feeling bludgeoned, especially if you avoid Quentin Tarantino movies or have Quaker ancestors (or, like me, fit into ...

Arts/Painting/Turrell, James/The man who turns the sky into art/Telegraph.co.uk/London/England/UK/6-May-06/AP/... He was born in Pasadena in 1943, and brought up as a Quaker (his grandmother used to encourage him to "look within and welcome the light"). ...

Arts/Painting///VISITING WYETH COUNTRY/Miami Herald/Miami/FL/USA/14-May-06/AP/... com. • Sweetwater Farm, a B&B with rooms in a 1734 Quaker farmhouse, more formal Georgian wing and cottages. From $135 weekdays. ...

Arts/Music///A man of music, a fine teacher, a good example/Press & Sun-Bulletin/Binghamton/NY/USA/9-May-06/AP/... him--right up until the end. He asked the choir before he passed away to sing at his funeral and to sing the early Quaker song: "My life flows on in endless song

Above earth's lamentation.

I hear the real though far off song

That hails a new creation.

Through all the tumult and the strife

I hear the music ringing.

It sounds an echo in my soul.

How can I keep from singing!"

Arts/Music///`Rednecks': 1; Punks: 0/Whittier Daily News/Whittier/CA/USA/12-May-06/AP/This Quaker-founded community has scored a TKO over a recent effort by punk rock promoters to equate their genre with the contemporary community standards of ...

Arts/Literature/Pound, Ezra//THIS ABOVE ALL/The Tribune/New Delhi/India/Asia/12-May-06/AP/... Ezra Waston Loomis Pound was born in Idaho of Quaker parents in 1885. He was educated in Hamilton College, Pennsylvania, married Hilda Doolittle and published his first collection of poems A Lume Spento in 1908 at his own expense. The couple moved to London where Pound taught in Regent Polytechnic, produced more collections of poems and quickly became a cult figure. ...

Arts/Literature/Pound, Ezra//MONEY AS A SOCIAL EVIL/Calcutta Telegraph/Calcutta/India/Asia/13-May-06/AP/... In between, he skillfully interweaves details of the life of Ezra Pound. Ezra Waston Loomis Pound was born in Idaho of Quaker parents in 1885. ...

Arts/Film/Abscott, Jeanne/Learning from 'Da Vinci'/Staunton News Leader/Staunton/VA/USA/12-May-06/AP/... "A lot of people will believe a lie more so than they believe the truth," said the Rev. Doris Woodson of Friendship Church in Staunton.

"Some folks lose perspective and forget that it's a novel," said the Rev. John Peterson of Covenant Presbyterian Church.

Jeanne Abscott, a Quaker living in Staunton, understands that the movie is fiction. Yet she also realizes that it will raise lots of questions and discussion.. ...

Arts/Fabric/Embroidery/Tapestry/Village record on show at museum/Yorkshire Post Today/York/England/UK/11-May-06/AP/The embroidery was started as a millennium project by the members of Hook Women's Institute, following the example of the Quaker Tapestry, which was produced ...

Arts/Cooking///High Point Museum plans an exhibit on cooking/Winston-Salem Journal/Winston-Salem/NC/USA/10-May-06/AP/...The opening will include a free cooking demonstration from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The demonstration will show how early Quaker settlers in High Point prepared such dishes as trifle and cobbler with strawberries. ...