Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Dr. E's Doll Museum Blog: Belated Happy Thanksgiving, Season's Greetings, an...
Dr. E's Doll Museum Blog: Belated Happy Thanksgiving, Season's Greetings, an...: Merry Christmas to all, and to all a Good Doll!!I would like to let everyone know that I am writing fairly regularly for the R. John Wright ...
Thursday, November 10, 2016
Antique Doll Collector Magazine: With Love from Tin Lizzie, Prof is Doll Collector...
Antique Doll Collector Magazine: With Love from Tin Lizzie, Prof is Doll Collector...: Below are excerpts from a very kind, and flattering article my school had written about me. I am an administrator and teacher in legal stu...
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Programs offered by The Holocaust Education Committee - Never Forget!
PROGRAMS OFFERED
BY
THE HOLOCAUST EDUCATION COMMITTEE
OF THE GREATER QUAD CITY AREA
SPEAKERS AND PRESENTERS
Authors, exhibits, Holocaust specialists and dramatic
presentations are provided to schools, libraries, churches and other community
venues through grants and collaboration with community groups.
INSTITUTES AND WORKSHOPS
Since 1993, Holocaust institutes and workshops have been
offered to Quad City educators, students and community members. Institutes are scheduled in the fall of
odd-numbered years.
TRUNKS AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL
MATERIALS
The Jeff Leibovitz Special Collection, housed at the Western
Illinois University Quad City Campus in Moline, provides access to over a
thousand resources, including sets of traveling curriculum cases focused on Making
a Difference, Rescuers and Resisters, and Diaries and Memoirs.
ESSAY AND ART CONTESTS
The Ida Kramer Children and the Holocaust Essay Contest and the
Meyer and Frances Shnurman Holocaust Visual Arts Contest are open to students
in grades 7-12. Submissions are due
annually on February 1.
TEACHER SCHOLARSHIPS
Applications
for the Rauch Foundation Teacher Scholarship, from $200 to $2,000, are due annually
on April 1 or October 1 to support professional development. The scholarship covers expenses for travel,
housing, and/or registration for conferences, workshops or tours.
A BOOK BY ME
Youth, 18 years old or younger, interview, research, write
and illustrate a 10-page book about a Holocaust survivor, liberator or rescuer.
Promoting a higher
awareness of the Holocaust as a unique historical event with universal
implications for today
WEBSITE: www.hecqc.org
Monday, November 7, 2016
A New Erzebet Literary Sighting, or should it be Citing!
Never mind the Once Upon a Time Segment last night where the Maleficent character looked like Erzebet, here is a humor/horror story featuring her. The story is titled "attack from above" and is in Chapter 16 of Dracula Transformed and Other Bloodthirsty Tales. The authors are Mike McCarty and Mark McLaughlin. There is always a naughty, bathroom humor spin to their horror, and some of the tales are quite funny. In this one, an all white Erzebet runs a contemporary disco/night club. It is named Club Contessa and Dracula characters Dracula, Renfield and Lucy appear. Literally, there is a fascinating spin to the false legends of hte blood baths, and an explanation for why virgin blood was soon favored. In a grim way, the story reminds me of nightclub disasters where so many are killed. There are even practical explanations for why the gore and blood are so carefully cleaned up, and for why Erzebet or the Contessa gets away with her crimes. Still, no one comes to look for the missing people? I once talked to Mike M. on Anne Rice, and he made a point of showing me a parody of her work that he had done. I'm surprised he would want to write part of a horror book on vampires, because I, for one, am a huge admirer of Rice. Oh well. Tastes change, no pun intended. The Contessa is first introduced as Erzebet in Chapter 13, of this confusing novella nestled among short stories: "That pale skin, those eager coal=-black eyes, those scarlet lips--there could be no mistake. It was her: the Coutnes Erzebet Dolingen-and before that, Countess Elizabeth Bathory. The Love of his Life!" (1995).
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