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Sallie's posts tagged ‘Ireland’

Hands

October 18th, 2023 by Sallie Bingham in Travel, Women 2 Comments

Photo of an elderly woman's hands

Our faces show the inevitable effects of age but our hands seem to me to retain a little of our youthful hopefulness.

In Travel, Women Favorites of 2023 Ireland Mary Clifford Caperton Bingham

Somewhere Out There You…

October 11th, 2023 by Sallie Bingham in Travel, Theater Leave a Comment

Promotional image for the play Somewhere Out There You

As I’m listening to long-forgotten but amazingly familiar tunes, I’m remembering the high point of my visit to Dublin last week…

In Travel, Theater New York City Ireland

Helena’s Story — The Blue Box: Three Lives In Letters

July 15th, 2014 by Sallie Bingham in My Family, Writing Leave a Comment

Helena Lefroy

As I prepare to let go of the previous trove of letters that make up the body of my next book, The Blue Box: Three Lives in Letters, and that detail the lives of my great-grandmother, grandmother and mother, from 1850 to 1931, I realize that I am most fond of my grandmother, Helena Caperton Lefroy, or at least of her memory.

In My Family, Writing Macdowell Colony Ireland The Blue Box Helena Lefroy Caperton

 

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Taken By The Shawnee

Taken By The Shawnee

July 6th, 2025
Sallie Bingham introduces and reads from her latest work, Taken by the Shawnee.
Visiting Linda Stein

Visiting Linda Stein

March 3rd, 2025
Back on October 28th, 2008, I visited artist Linda Stein's studio in New York City and tried on a few of her handmade suits of armor.

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Rebecca Reynolds & Salie Bingham at SOMOS

Rebecca Reynolds & Salie Bingham at SOMOS

November 8th, 2024
This event was recorded November 1, 2024 in Taos, NM at SOMOS Salon & Bookshop by KCEI Radio, Red River/Taos and broadcast on November 8, 2024.
Taken by the Shawnee Reading

Taken by the Shawnee Reading

September 1st, 2024
This reading took place at The Church of the Holy Faith in Santa Fe, New Mexico in August of 2024.

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Sallie Bingham's latest is a captivating account of ancestor's ordeal
Pasatiempo, The Santa Fe New Mexican

“I felt she was with me” during the process of writing the book, Bingham says. “I felt I wasn’t writing anything that would have seemed to her false or unreal.”

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