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For me, 2018 has been a year of continued personal growth and the creation of incredible new chapters in life.  My thirst for knowledge and cultural experiences continues unabated.  Six months [...]

Rare books have an image problem. To the unfamiliar, they seem to have the epithet of ‘boring’.  Musings begin with something like: “It’s a book that is, well, old. I can buy a new copy from [...]

Dante Alighieri.  His poetic masterpiece The Divine Comedy has enraptured scholars and the literati for centuries.  His depictions of Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Heaven (Paradiso) [...]

Hans Christian Andersen once said, “Where words fail, music speaks.”.  For those who have classical music fused into their everyday lives, it is hard to imagine a life without its [...]