Lois Irene Armstrong (nèe Hite): An amazing life lived! Lois Irene Armstrong (nèe Hite) passed on Saturday, Feb. 24 2024, in her home in Lewistown, surrounded by her sons. Lois was born in East Pittsburgh, in June of 1932, the daughter of John and Edna Hite. John Hite was originally from Belsano, and Edna (nÈe […]
Updated: August 4, 2021, 8:48 am
Support is growing for Invernessian Josephine Tey, the crime writer s crimewriter, to be commemorated in the city with a blue plaque
A groundswell of support has emerged for the placement of a blue plaque in Inverness to recognise one of its most successful daughters, featured recently in the P&J.
Best-selling author and playwright Elizabeth ‘Beth’ MacKintosh, aka Josephine Tey and Gordon Daviot (1896-1952) had strong connections with the city’s Castle Street, where her family owned a successful fruiterer and various other properties which they rented out.
One of their addresses, no 53 Castle Street, was demolished earlier this year, and is in the process of being rebuilt, complete with the original stone façade.
Pidgeon is also a singer/songwriter whose album
Slingshot was nominated for a Grammy Award. Her latest album is
Sudden Exposure To Light.
Heidi Sulzman (
Hell or High Water
Adopt a Highway with Ethan Hawke and 2018 s
6 Balloons with Abbi Jacobson which was nominated for the Game Changer Award at SXSW. Theatre Credits include
One in the Chamber for which she won the L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Lead in a Play. The play also garnered a Drama Critics Circle Award for Best New Play by Marja-Lewis Ryan. In 2015 she was honored to perform opposite Rebecca Pidgeon in David Mamet s