This excellent book includes a fascinating chapter on the rural cemetery movement of the 19th century, which held that cemeteries should be considered civic institutions for public use. Basically parks before those became more common.
85 cats escaping from a log cabin in the book 170 Cats by Zhenya Gay and Pachita Crespi, 1939.
Mayor Adams is wearing his “in god we trust” American flag shirt once again. But this time it’s written in Italian. He says it’s Spanish to honor the victims of a nightclub roof collapse in the Dominican republic last week.
"New York City is the Santo Domingo of Rome"
don't forget the preacher (mike johnson-type)! h/t
@moiradonegan.bsky.socialCheck out the BBC adaptation after you finish Bring Up the Bodies. It's excellent! (BBC's adaptation of the third book, with its astonishing final pages, will air in the US in March.)
