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The A to Z choices made by oldtime San Franciscans. Frank Dunnigan, WNP member and columnist. -
Streetwise - San Francisco A-B-Cs Part #1
by Frank Dunnigan
April 2012
Growing up in the Outside Lands in the 1950s and 1960s, most families did things a certain way, unless they did things that OTHER way as in “You say tomato, I say tomahto.” For almost any subject under the sun, there were always at least two popular choices…
After-School Activities We had the choice of a large well-lighted schoolyard just half a block away at St. Cecilia’s, not to mention two full city blocks of open space at Larsen Park just around the corner. In the end, though, the favorite after-school play spot was the middle of the street on our block of 18th Avenue.
Inside|Out program brings art to Paint Creek Trail
“Rounded Flower Bed,” by Claude Monet, is displayed in public during a past Inside|Out exhibition by the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Photo provided by the DIA
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ROCHESTER/ROCHESTER HILLS/OAKLAND TOWNSHIP The Detroit Institute of Arts’ 2021 Inside|Out program will once again bring art to the Rochester area this summer.
Amanda Harrison, the DIA’s community engagement manager for Oakland County, said the art museum launched the project in 2010.
“This is a wonderful project that was inspired from our director at the time, who took a trip to Europe and noticed these works of art from the museums there out in the community. It’s an unexpected way to experience these masterpieces from a world-class museum in your own space,” she said.
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