edecious@messengernews.net Readers can purchase âOur War: Our Heroesâ at Mary Kay Gifts & Home Decor (adjacent to Daniel Pharmacy), Blanden Memorial Art Museum, the Webster County Historical Society located at the Fort Dodge Public Library, or from Natte by calling 515-576-2785 or emailing rjnatte@frontiernet.net.
Readers can purchase âOur War: Our Heroesâ at Mary Kay Gifts & Home Decor (adjacent to Daniel Pharmacy), Blanden Memorial Art Museum, the Webster County Historical Society located at the Fort Dodge Public Library, or from Natte by calling 515-576-2785 or emailing rjnatte@frontiernet.net.
Sometimes it’s the little things, seen only through the aperture of the human eye, that bring history to life.
Artist Lori Miller is creating 18 pieces to help transform hotel ballroom.
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Rochester artist Lori Miller, seen here Dec. 15, 2020, has been commissioned to create a number of paintings for the Rochester DoubleTree hotel. (Ken Klotzbach / kklotzbach@postbulletin.com)
Rochester’s DoubleTree by Hilton hotel isn’t dancing around the idea of displaying local art in their University Hall Ballroom. Instead, it s doubling down on the concept.
Local artist Lori Miller has been commissioned to create 18 large paintings for the space as part of an effort to transform it into a “modern, elegant event space,” in the words of Michelle Milde, director of publications and marketing for the hotel.
Delivering Christmas to area kids
By Sarah Hawley - shawley@aimmediamidwest.com
Representatives from local law enforcement and first responder agencies, along with Mark and Theresa Porter and Loyalty is Forever representatives took part in delivering Shop with a Cop gifts to area kids on Monday.
Sarah Hawley | Sentinel
Representatives from local law enforcement and first responder agencies, along with Mark and Theresa Porter and Loyalty is Forever representatives took part in delivering Shop with a Cop gifts to area kids on Monday.
Sarah Hawley | Sentinel
MEIGS COUNTY It may not have been the traditional “Shop with a Cop” event, but first responders, business owners and community members made sure local youth received gifts in time for Christmas.
Muse
Vancouver-based writer Mary Novik’s first novel,
Conceit, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2007 and won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 2008. Muse is Novik’s second novel, and is set deep in history, both in time and detail. Novik weaves the story of fictitious protagonist, Solange, a spunky redheaded seer, into events of fourteenth-century Avignon including the historic personalities of the time: the poet Petrarch, his brother Gherardo, and Pope Clement VI.
From the beginning I was hooked: “I first hear my mother’s heartbeat from inside her dark surrounding womb.” This powerful image was followed by one of Solange’s defining visions. She could recall what we can’t, or shouldn’t; the depths of the past, the images of one’s future. “His face was as clear to me as the blood vessels inside her womb, his skin foxed with a tracery of veins I looked straight into his eyes and they were as hard and blue as lapis lazuli” (page 3). With this r
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