Being chosen Miss Canada in 1949 meant a brief taste of glory for Margaret Lynne Munn, of North Vancouver. Now the tall blonde who hoped to sing at the Met dances in the Copacabana line and dreams of seeing her name in Broadway lights
Read an Excerpt From Mia McKenzie s Skye Falling marieclaire.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from marieclaire.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Philadelphia in black and white: Fascinating historical photographs of the city when it was called the Workshop of the World reveal its people, row houses, shops, saloons and streets from the 1890s to 1910
From around the late 1800s to 1920, Philadelphia was known as the Workshop of the World due to the many things - from cigars to steel ships - it produced. Many moved to the city to work in its factories and mills
The population rapidly grew and this fueled a building boom. Over 6,500 homes were being built each year in a period covered in a new book, City of Neighborhoods: Philadelphia, 1890–1910 by Joseph Minardi
Jasmine Sanders on the Black Romantic
Aaron Hicks,
Daniel in the Lion’s Den, 2000, lacquer and acrylic on canvas, 30 × 36 .
I WAS RAISED BY MY GRANDMOTHER in the Robert Taylor Homes, a housing project on Chicago’s South Side, but frequently stayed at the home of my aunt Rosemary Jarrett, my grandmother’s oldest daughter. When my adoption was finalized, my birth certificate and other documents indelibly amended, my aunt became, legally, my sister, a novel relation that would be indispensable, steadying.
My aunt had back then a marvelously filthy mouth, supplemented by a full and ribald laugh. She inherited from her mother a talent for entertaining, as well as an exuberant, maximalist approach to the adornment of self and home. These impulses converged in the art parties she hosted when I was younger.