My random thoughts are haphazardly disorganized bits and pieces of things I hear, read or remember, and when the file gets full I try to make sense of them in a column.
As I was doing the story on the VE-Day commemoration, I remembered the Memorial Day parades when I was young. I grew up near the north end of the Fifth Street Bridge, aka Hazel Dell Bridge and currently the Lincoln High School and Veterans Memorial Bridge, where I had a marvelous view of the Memorial Day parades. A portion of the parade would stop on the bridge and the riflemen would fire a volley, the bugler would play taps, and women usually dressed in white would get out of cars and a wreath would be tossed over the rails and into the Connoquenessing. They were the Gold Star Mothers, women who had lost sons or daughters in the war. I didn t think of it at the time, but as I look back to those parades in the 1940s I expect that some of these women lost their loved ones in World War I.
Louise Carroll
Special to The Ledger
If you are from here and here is anywhere around Pittsburgh/Western Pennsylvania you have experienced the cookie table. I have overdosed on the cookie table, and I bet you have, too.
Who doesn t salivate looking at cookies of all kinds, shapes and flavors waiting to be tasted? They are all homemade, mixed with expertise, sprinkled with tradition and baked with love.
Many cookie tables I ve had the privilege of sampling have been cookies that are works of art, displayed with irresistible artistry. It is said that we eat first with our eyes so I have often made a glutton of myself before I ever bite into a cookie.
ZELIENOPLE – The Strand Theater is scheduling a youth Musical Theater Camp program that will culminate in the school edition of Les Miserables.
Director Jeremy Czarniak said it is important to register early because the size of the camp is limited and some have already registered.
The camp is open to students ages 10 through 18 who love performing on stage. It offers extensive training, rehearsal and production experience.
Musical director is Nancy Gordon Galluzzo, a classically trained piano accompanist, music educator, director and producer.
Czarniak, a theater veteran, director, choreographer and performer, brings his expertise to the curriculum. The Robert Morris University assistant professor and teacher at the Pittsburgh Musical Theater is excited to have the camp this year.
Louise Carroll: Unicorns, flowers and spending time in Ellwood City
By Louise Carroll
Special to The Ledger
I m sure more happens in my mind than in my life. My mind is free to go anywhere. It has no limits, it can think anything, imagine anything and create anything. Many times I m very grateful people can t read my mind, but my mind is also inspired by things I hear, see and read and I just have to write them down. My compulsion becomes the Random Column.
April 9 was National Unicorn Day. I m not sure how to celebrate the holiday, but I received a card last year from my friend, Dee Kammermier, who lives in New York. It said. I believe in you and unicorns, but especially you.