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UK Trip 2023: Chapter Eleven>Liverpool
By Michael Downing Liverpool We hopped the train from Manchester to Liverpool and found ourselves trundling along toward where the mouth of the River Mersey meets the Irish Sea. Liverpool’s population as of 2019 was 496,784, making it just a bit smaller than Manchester. It is the fifth largest city in the UK, and part…
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UK Trip 2023: Chapter Ten>Stratford-Upon-Avon and Manchester
By Michael Downing After nine amazing days in London, we took an Uber back to Heathrow, rented a Nissan Juke, and began our trek to Shakespeare’s birthplace: Stratford-Upon-Avon. Stratford is a beautiful little town. We took pictures with Shakespeare’s statue in the middle of the square, visited Shakespeare’s birthplace, and popped into a cool little…
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UK Trip 2023: Chapter Nine>Self-Portrait of an Artist
By Michael Downing On Finally Becoming an Artist I have never considered myself an artist. It wasn’t until about ten years ago when Jackie finally convinced me that for not being an artist, I sure do create a lot of art. My art is practical, though. It involves taking the individual components of a house and…
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UK Trip 2023: Chapter Eight>London: Tate Modern
By Michael Downing Tate Modern Tate Modern is beautiful. Located on London’s South Bank, it houses “the United Kingdom’s national collection of international modern and contemporary art, and forms part of the Tate group together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It is one of the largest modern and contemporary museums in the world. During our visit, the works of two artists were…
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UK 2023: Chapter Seven>London: The Globe and A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By Michael Downing Shakespeare’s Globe The original Globe Theatre is where William Shakespeare staged his plays back in the late 1500s; Shakespeare’s Globe is the contemporary reconstruction of the theatee that is located near the original site. As always, Wikipedia gives us verified facts quickly: “The modern Shakespeare’s Globe was founded by the actor and director Sam Wanamaker,…
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UK 2023: Chapter Six>My World of Shakespeare Studies, Old English/Middle English/Modern English, Macbeth and the Power of Archetypes
By Michael Downing My World of Shakespeare Back in the 1990s when I lived in Pittsburgh, I put together a full-time teaching schedule by teaching courses at various community colleges, including Butler County Community College, the Community College of Beaver County, and Community College of Allegheny County (Boyce Campus). My schedule was spread out between…
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