I had no idea that "[u]pon her death [Dorothy Parker] left her estate to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. She also provided that in the event of his death, her estate would pass on to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People." I also didn't know that she died only a year before I was born.

My land is bare of chattering folk ( Read more... )

Isn't it funny how you can find the most beautiful website in another hemisphere - all the way over on the other side of the world - and it's brimful of the most enchanted chronicles of someone's entire life, and photographs of their every day, and there's nothing you want to own of it because you're only visiting and enjoying what you find...? And ( Read more... )