The lights were dimmed. The crowd sat quietly, watching the front of the room, waiting for the first images of light. Music began to fill the space: quiet, thoughtful vocals could be heard with [...]
In 1913, Eleanor Porter published a novel named Pollyanna, telling the story of an eleven-year-old girl whose irrepressible optimism transforms a whole town in Vermont. The book became wildly [...]
Lee Mendelson died on Christmas Day 2019, at age eighty-six, near San Francisco, a city he always called home. He was a Stanford University grad, an Air Force veteran, a guy who worked for a [...]
