Music World Loses a Legend
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Ed Berkeley’s unexpected death last month was a shocker in the performing arts community here and abroad. It was extraordinarily hard-hitting for the two organizations with which Berkeley had longstanding relationships: the Aspen Music Festival and School and The Juilliard School. Berkeley had been Director of the Opera Theater Center of the Festival for 40 […]
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The Collyer Brothers: World Champion Hoarders
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“Like the rest of the world I knew of the Holt brothers through the newspapers which made them a sensation,” Marcia Davenport wrote. “Scarcely anybody has forgotten how Seymour Holt was found dead in that derelict house crammed from cellar to roof with one hundred seventy tons of hoarded rubbish; and how, after a twenty-two […]
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Depression and Heart Attacks: A Deadly Combination
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In August of 1991, author Larry McMurtry struck a Holstein cow while driving on a rural road near his Texas panhandle ranch. The cow walked away from the accident and the Lincoln town car was slightly damaged, but the event marked the inception of a lengthy healthcare crisis for McMurtry. The next morning McMurtry was […]
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Home or Hospital? Choosing a place to die.
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Most Americans would prefer to die at home. Surveys show that 90% of our population wants to pass away in their own beds. There was a time when the majority of deaths were homebased. In 1912, two-thirds of those passing succumbed there. “Throughout human history, and until very recently, most people died at home,” Dr. […]
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The Woman who Made the Yellow Ribbon an International Symbol
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“I just wanted to give people something constructive to do,” Penelope Laingen said about her decision to tie a yellow ribbon around an oak tree in the yard of her Bethesda, Maryland home. It was December of 1979, a month after her husband, Bruce, and 51 others had been taken hostage at the American Embassy […]
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