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Saturday, December 26, 2015
Friday, December 25, 2015
Christmas Eve: Downtown Boston, Horse Drawn Carriage
Horse Drawn Carriage Downtown Boston
Boston Bridal Carriage
To fully appreciate our Christmas Eve, you might want to window shop surf their website.
Last year was record snowfall and you can see how Harvard University was submerged in icicles from the lecture videos from our online course in American poetry.
The Christmas Eve worship service from Donna's church across from the Orpheum Theater was a regular service and we have been to several this month, but it wasn't really needed to get out of any blizzard of any sort, so we went into the shopping district to return something at Macy's, which had closed at six o'clock.
Donna said that what she wanted most in the world was to ride the horse drawn carriage through the city. I had to find the stand and thought I remembered seeing them at Faneuil Hall, which has changed just enough for the stand to have moved.
After riding through a completely empty Liberty Square, downtown Boston, at nine o'clock at night, on the warmest Christmas since 1955, the record breaking "Blink" Christmas Tree at Faneuil Hall blasted Handel's Messiah recorded by the Boston Pops. The Blink exhibition was a series of flashing Christmas lights where the tree changed colors from Red to Green to White. It was synchronized to our arriving at the Customs House at the end of the carriage ride.
Architectural study would mostly look at the nineteenth (upto Edwardian) century-but walking back I found a plaque where Paul Revere's Silver Shop once was, notable in that The Old North Church, The Paul Revere House and needless to say Paul Revere's grave, are still landmarks in Boston that can be seen at anytime.
Boston Bridal Carriage
To fully appreciate our Christmas Eve, you might want to window shop surf their website.
Last year was record snowfall and you can see how Harvard University was submerged in icicles from the lecture videos from our online course in American poetry.
The Christmas Eve worship service from Donna's church across from the Orpheum Theater was a regular service and we have been to several this month, but it wasn't really needed to get out of any blizzard of any sort, so we went into the shopping district to return something at Macy's, which had closed at six o'clock.
Donna said that what she wanted most in the world was to ride the horse drawn carriage through the city. I had to find the stand and thought I remembered seeing them at Faneuil Hall, which has changed just enough for the stand to have moved.
After riding through a completely empty Liberty Square, downtown Boston, at nine o'clock at night, on the warmest Christmas since 1955, the record breaking "Blink" Christmas Tree at Faneuil Hall blasted Handel's Messiah recorded by the Boston Pops. The Blink exhibition was a series of flashing Christmas lights where the tree changed colors from Red to Green to White. It was synchronized to our arriving at the Customs House at the end of the carriage ride.
Architectural study would mostly look at the nineteenth (upto Edwardian) century-but walking back I found a plaque where Paul Revere's Silver Shop once was, notable in that The Old North Church, The Paul Revere House and needless to say Paul Revere's grave, are still landmarks in Boston that can be seen at anytime.
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Sunday, December 6, 2015
Our second performance of Handel's Messiah on Tremont Street
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We sat in the balcony during a performance of Handel's Messiah. Last year we were in front of the orchestra. we were invited by the orchestra manager, who is Donna's supervisor in the church library.
Donna only just got her new camera this week and was unsteady using it still, so we don't have any photographs of the performance. As written as a classical piece, the Hallelujah chorus is a substantial pop-rock single, I regard to chords.
Not having any photographs I went to research the history of the church/theater as I have already included it in an online theater class assignment and I came up with the volume pictured above. it is a decorative theater and Donna was hesitant to sit in the balcony, but acquiesced, enjoying it after seeing her friend in the orchestra.
I got a letter from her senior minister this morning in regard to correspondence I had sent with condolences for a member of the congregation. I had taken the initiative to write the clergy, and with a sincere thought of sympathy, which was politely recieved. I'll leave the person's webpage as it is, how he left it, without posting any of the art work here, only writing that he admired Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper.
In the meanitine. Needless to Say. Have been taking on line courses. There was a course in fact on Handel's Messiah offered by Harvard University on the same platform that I use, but I'm not a musician, so I declined enrolling, which is funny, because before we were dating I read a mystery titled the Memorial Hall Murder about a performance of Handel's Messiah at Harvard, which was more a a comical pastiche from a Harvard Art student. I have classes from Harvard University on line in which I currently enrolled in, but on China and the Renaissance, not Classical Music.
But this did happen, we met the third online instructor of mine, and I recieved a very nice letter from him after.
It was a course in Literature and I was very surprised to see him in the United States, so I introduced myself to him and he introduced himself to Donna. He mentioned he was a visiting professor at Harvard and I included a video of him in my other blog. So we met my Literature professor from Australia while I was finishing a literature class in Science Fiction from Zurich.
Since I just got word that I got the lowest passing grade in all three of my last classes, I looked to find that, although there is no "semester structure" to online classes other than what you put together yourself, there are new classes popping up just as I am completing those now in progress.
here's what I have finished online so far in a year and a half:
Please review my completed classes: Scott Lord Online Certificates
Saturday, November 7, 2015
We met my online instructor in Harvard Square
Professor New of Harvard University will in fact be offering Modernism (Modern Poetry) in the Spring.
Thank you to Leah Dennis for the warm welcome that she gave me in Harvard Square when I introduced myself as her online student. I finished an online class last night that she is involved with on The Book from HaravardX that covered antiquarian manuscripts. The first two certificates from American Poetry may have been my favorites, but I completed four classes in American poetry that Leah worked on and am currently in a series in which she was discussing Herman Melville's copy of the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson. It discussed the Oversoul, but the professor use the term the world-soul (sounds more like Hegel than Kant, doesn't it?).
We were on our way to Mount Auburn and I was going to to get tobacco when Leah was going in for an frozen yogurt, so I went in and asked "Is your name Leah" and she gave me a handshake. We were in a hurry, which allowed me to keep it short, especially since she may have been busy at the University with something. She asked," So you take a lot of these?" and I was going to explain that I like the fact that Coursera is an international campus platform, but then checked myself self and mentioned that I took another one from Harvard titled Intangible Things but didn't like it as much as those that were instructed by Professor New.
I have now met two of my MOOC instructors, Leah Dennis and Professor Robert Allison, of Suffolk University, who instructs a course on history on a different platform. We attended one of his lectures at the Old North Church and I got a handshake from him as well.
We were on way to Mount Auburn and the weather was Indian Summer. The secret to Mount Auburn Cemetary is that it is easy to get to as it is on a bus line from the subway. From the entrance we could see a flock of birds at a distance walking up the pavement. At first you would think they were geese, but I though they might be pheasants. We followed them toward the Chapel, which was closed, near the Sphinx. As it got later we made our way to the grave of Henry Wadsworth Longefellow before leaving.
I heard a sound I have never heard before and turned to see four wild turkeys coming out of the brush. Apparently, although wild, they are not skittish, and we got nearer to them. it ties in with my long anecdote of their being wild rabbits at the Longfellow House (museum).
Poscript, this video was in this blog earlier from a period when we were taking a bus passed Harvard Stadium weekly, so after meeting the instructor, I added the above revision.
One of my recent internet poetry tutors (mentors). Please allow a quick listen.
Monday, October 19, 2015
Donna saw author Joyce Carol Oates, First Parish Church, Harvard Square
it was given at the First Parish Church, near Church Street, adjacent to the Old Burial Ground, where some of my online classes from Harvard University on the poet Anne Bradstreet were filmed.
it was a complete surprise. Because Donna was Phi Beta Kappa in New Jersey, I've have already been taking online classes from Princeton University, although they are not conducted by Ms. Oates. But she did demonstrate that she is not only a novelist, but a writer of literary criticism.
I was tiring of the story, but I had seen Joyce Carol Oates, as well as George Plimpton and John Updike, during the twentieth century, at the Boston Public Library; a quarter of century ago I believe.
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
A new Wild Rabbit, The Swan Boats on Boston Common,an actor
It's a new wild rabbit; his eyes are smaller than the other one we had. He is in our courtyard, quadrangle, where the other one was. It is nocturnal like the other one. It is an outdoor smoking lounge with train tracks heading toward the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on one side and 19 floors on the other: therefore we have a flock of pigeons, tonight the one entirely white pigeon found our terrace again.
This afternoon, on Boston Common, and we can see the Prudential and Hancock from this height, we took the Swan Boats. "It was good relaxation for 15 minutes." We had had lunch on Arch Street, Boston, near Congress, Federal and Winthrop Streets.
We got to near Emerson College and someone emerged from the theater, so I asked if the Carole King Musical was playing and he kindly said it was at another theater and his theater was putting on the Book of Mormon. I then socially inquired if he was in the play, and he replied that he just worked for the theater house, but the question was on its mark and elicited a good response.
On the Swan boats a turtle had climbed on to the ramp to the island and was positioned between the two Swans.
While we were in the Swan Boats, the couple behind us was talking about a play the student was writing as I eavesdropped, when the exclaimed that someone from Broadway was on the shore/bank with the ducks. They recognized him as an off Broadway performer, David Larsen.
We passed him first after getting of the Swan Boat, so I asked him,"excuse me, were you an actor?" And he replied yes, so my explanatory remark was "the kids recognized you".
As we continued on, the couple from the boat caught up with the actor, and they seemed through as we peered through the trees as they got autographs or photos.bHe apparently is in the Broadway show The Book of Mormon, presently touring Boston.
I need my questions to be those of a novelist, and they were.
The rabbits, if you read earlier entries have been here for a year. First we spotted the at Mount Auburn Cemetary after having lunch here in Cambridge, and then at the Longfellow House on Brattle Street. By dint of some strange luck, one showed up here, near my ashtray.
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
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Friday, July 31, 2015
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Tuesday, May 26, 2015
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Attended lecture given by my MOOC professor
Professor Robert Allison, History, Suffolk University shook my hand tonight at the Old North Church in Boston.
He read a poem by Emerson that was assigned in on online class on poetry from Harvard University. This is him reading The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (Henry Wadswoth Longfellow)
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
My personal interview with and screening of Chelsea Girls for one of surviving actors.
While I was typing , and elderly gentleman that I happen to occasionally socialize with who appeared in this 1966 film by Andy Warhol happenned to walk passed. I quickly pulled up the film and screened it for him. He described and identified the other actors in the film while it was running, telling me which woman he went to bed with, which he liked most, which actor was addicted to amphetamines, which shared Warhol's sexual proclivity.
Before I had met him, I had happenned to complete an online course on art and Andy Warhol offered by the University of Edinburgh, the university offering an online course entitled Introduction to Philosophy, in which I presently have a mentor position. I am in the class as an observer after having passed for an extended period, about twice as long as the course takes to finish. Actually, I wasn't working on being a philosophy mentor tonight, I'm waiting for a grade in a lingustics course from the Netherlands that finished last week and I'm mostly studying Viking Saga, the Poetic and Prose Eddas from the University of Zurich. The linguistic course featured a graded 12 minutes lecture from guest Naom Chomsky.
That was the movie part of tonight's dinner and a movie. Donna and I had lunch, baked chicken and squash, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the MIT Johnson Athletic Center on Vassar Street.
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