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Bedside table: A dose of storytelling makes the history lessons stick

“I find that reading and discussing well-written and researched historical novels is a great alternative for learning history. We’re reading ‘Oliver Wiswell’ by Kenneth Roberts for a course I’m leading at York County Community College’s South Coast Senior College. It’s Roberts’ third historical novel that spans the American Revolution and is written from the Loyalist […]

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Best music of 2021: Playboi Carti, Grouper, Turnstile, Yasmin Williams and more

In our second pandemic year, our collective sense of frozen time began to thaw in drips and dribbles. Sometimes music helped get things gushing again: Bells were ringing, people were falling in and out of love, and the clock seemed to be ticking ahead. Other times, we were reminded that music is a temporal medium […]

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‘Only Murders in the Building’ and other great shows you may have missed in 2021

We just wrapped up another tough and chaotic year, and it seems particularly important now to find joy wherever and however we can. If your self-care approach includes finding a funny, heartwarming or, even, appropriately dark TV show, you’re in the right place. Here are some of the hidden gems you may have missed amid […]