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Sallie's posts tagged ‘The Blue Box’

Recording Two Women’s Friendship

July 24th, 2019 by  Sallie Bingham   in  Writing Leave a Comment

What did these two stout scrapbooks mean to my mother?

In Writing Mary Caperton Bingham The Blue Box

2017 SOKY Book Fest: Panel – Nonfiction

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The Blue Box (2014)

This year at the Southern Kentucky Book Fest I will be presenting a workshop on memoir writing on Friday afternoon and also be part of a nonfiction panel on Saturday morning.

Kentucky The Blue Box The Silver Swan

2017 SOKY Book Fest: Workshop

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The Blue Box (2014)

This year at the Southern Kentucky Book Fest I will be presenting a workshop on memoir writing on Friday afternoon and also be part of a nonfiction panel on Saturday morning.

Kentucky The Blue Box The Silver Swan

How to Celebrate

November 16th, 2016 by  Sallie Bingham   in  New Mexico 1 Comment

How to Celebrate

What a party it was!

In New Mexico Canyon de Chelly Earthwalks Santa Fe The Blue Box

The Bingham Estate: Leaving The Past Behind

October 23rd, 2014 by  Sallie Bingham   in  My Family 1 Comment

Melcombe Estate / Bingham Estate

What she will do with that enormous house, which seems to me mired in the past, will surely be different from what my parents did with it in the 1940’s and 50’s, when its prime function was to serve as a weekend roost for drunken Derby guests, who terrified me with their antics.

In My Family Bingham Estate Melcombe Estate The Blue Box

Writers, French Women and French Bookstores

October 16th, 2014 by  Sallie Bingham   in  Travel, Writing 1 Comment

Moby Dickens, Taos, N.M.

We have an obligation to be fearless, never leaving out “the good parts,” those hidden parts of lives that are of most interest to all of us: it is in “the good parts” that the essence of a human life is often revealed.

In Travel, Writing Lydie Salvayre Moby Dickens The Blue Box

The Blue Box Debuts: First Public Reading!

September 9th, 2014 by  Sallie Bingham   in  Writing 4 Comments

The Touching Hand (1967) - Sallie Bingham

There are moments in life that are so precious, so sweet, that years later they still ring like a set of silver chimes.

In Writing my garden The Blue Box The Touching Hand

My Mother’s Hat — The Blue Box

September 2nd, 2014 by  Sallie Bingham   in  My Family 1 Comment

The Blue Box

I have the historian’s skeptical view of the past and of the vestal virgins who attend it so assiduously. Their reverence seems to depend on a net of lies and denials. But when I touch the soft feathers of my mother’s hat, preserved for seventy years, I understand a little of what the other women in the family feel.

In My Family The Blue Box World War Two

Bingham Estate, Louisville KY

August 19th, 2014 by  Sallie Bingham   in  Kentucky, My Family 8 Comments

Melcombe Estate / Bingham Estate

I don’t usually call it the Bingham Estate but just the big house, which gives it the same moniker as SingSing; but when big news breaks, the big name seems appropriate.

In Kentucky, My Family Bingham Estate Filson Historical Society Melcombe Estate Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History & Culture The Blue Box

On The Blue Box

August 3rd, 2014 by  Sallie Bingham   in  Writing 1 Comment

The Blue Box

The Blue Box does not share the soft glow that softens the details of so many family histories; its light approaches a glare.

In Writing Helena Lefroy Caperton Mary Caperton Bingham Mary Clifford Caperton Sallie Montague Lefroy Sarabande Books The Blue Box

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The Last Word - KSFR

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