This book is one of a series of early 20th century proto-science fiction novels published by MIT Press in their self described Radium Age of underappreciated forgotten classics from 1900-1935. There are 21 books in the series at this time. Here is a link to the MIT Press Radium Age from Penguin Random House.
The author, Pauline Hopkins, was a prominent African-American novelist, historian, journalist, playwright and editor. She wrote novels that explored social and racial themes.
We had the last of that fantastic Heidelberg French Peasant Bread with it. That bread is now our go to soup bread.
I collected several of his albums around that time and also the records of the band Oregon of which he was also a member.
Today I put on a group of Towner's albums. Just a couple of weeks ago I had played some Oregon albums in a Kitchen Listening set. I need to listen to those albums again real soon.
In the meantime I have a group of his albums playing in the kitchen right now. So beautiful and wonderful sounding. He really had a unique way of playing the acoustic guitar.
His albums in my collection:
The message says... "Winter storm warning remains in effect until 4 pm EST Wednesday..." Heavy snow with total accumulations 10 to 20 inches for the city of Buffalo. High winds gusting up to 50 mph.
We were planning to go to the Albright Knox Art Museum tomorrow and then dinner at the restaurant across the way... The Terrace on Delaware Park Lake. I guess maybe not. But then I checked the hours and found out the restaurant is closed Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. Not sure what's going on.
Update 1/19: Well, we got up this morning and there was apparently only a dusting of snow last night. It was supposed to start at 2 am and continue all night and morning.
We had a nice phone conversation with him tonight and we're looking forward to going out to dinner with him and Ashley when we get over to their home in a couple of months. There's a nice restaurant that they love and we want to check out. Milas Restaurant in Schenectady.
This was a book that I kept picking up to read but then put down again after a short time because it was such a disturbing story. It took me almost a month and a half to get through the book but it was worth the effort.
I remember that time of the Iranian revolution very vividly in the late 1970's. and the 1979 hostage crises in particular. Also recently I had been reading some of my notes I'd written about the hostage crises I had written at the time and found in my box of "stuff" on the 3rd floor.
I had read several histories of the Middle East, Persia, Iraq and the region in general. It was certainly an interesting story of the Shah of Iran, the so called King of Kings. I was shocked to read how weak a leader he really was and also the terrible bungling of the Americans in dealing with him and the Iranian revolution. President Carter really did a bad job but then of course he had lots of inept people giving him bad information.
The book also detailed the proof that the Ronald Reagan campaign really did work with the Iranians to keep the American hostages in captivity until after the election so that Reagan could use the crises against Carter. As we know, the hostages were released the day Reagan took office. Everyone believed it was Reagan manipulating the crises behind the scene but it has only been recent that the proof has become public as described in the book.
It was a very sad day for Buffalo Bills fans. Also at the end of the game in overtime the Bronco's quarterback Bo Nix broke his ankle. So much for the Broncos in the next playoff game.
When the snow stopped or slowed down I went out and did some shoveling. It turned out I did it three times today. The last was in the dark about 6 pm. The temperature at that time was 9 degrees and I could really feel that cold in my fingers after cleaning off the car. I didn't clear off the car at all earlier in the day and it turned out to be about 5 inches piled on the car.
