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Sandra Scott Travels: Be Safe And Enjoy A Visit To Honduras

December 14, 2018 Contributor
Honduras is often listed as one of the world’s most dangerous countries – statistically. Mark Twain, among others, said, “There are three kinds of untruths: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” Plus, the US State Department recommendation for Honduras is “Reconsider Travel.” There have been serious complains about the US travel warnings as they were considered too politically based.

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Sandra Scott Travels: The Human Side Of The Civil War

December 7, 2018 Contributor
The Cumberland Gap is a narrow pass through the Cumberland Mountains, near the junction of Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee. It was the gateway to the west for early pioneers and later became the route of the military during the Civil War. Today, it is part of the Cumberland Gap National Historic Park. The nearby Hensley Settlement is now a historic site on top of Brush Mountain.

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Sandra Scott Travels: Remembering The Forgotten Battle Of The Civil War

November 30, 2018 Contributor
I am in the process of triaging my library. Some books I am keeping because I may want to reread them. One book that is a keeper is Robert Hicks’ best-selling Civil War novel, “The Widow of the South,” based on Carrie McGavock and the Battle of Franklin. Carrie McGavock, morose over the death of three of her young children, rises to the occasion when her plantation home becomes a military hospital. She personally attends to the soldiers.

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The SUNY Oswego theatre department will do a staged reading at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 29, of famed Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw's "The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet: A Sermon in Crude Melodrama." The play features Oswego students Bryce Cohen (seated) as Blanco Posnet, a cowboy accused of horse thievery and on trial for his life; and (from left) Madelyn Crews as The Woman, Douglas Woolever (Sheriff Kemp), Autumn Pollock (Feemy Evans) and William (Liam) Carr (Elder Daniels).
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‘Blanco Posnet’ Characters To Re-create George Bernard Shaw Play With ‘Voices Alone’

November 21, 2018 Contributor
The SUNY Oswego theatre department will present a one-performance staged reading at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 29, of famed playwright George Bernard Shaw’s “The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet: A Sermon in Crude Melodrama.” The performance — free and open to the public, but ticketed — will take place in Marano Campus Center auditorium, Room 132.

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