April & Nina's Salon Newsletter |
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April & Nina's Salon is hosting its first public event. TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW! |
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| | My Journey to the Podium – part 7: Prague, Al Gore, Maestra, & Hillary Rodham Clinton by Nina Kennedy I spent some time in Prague, the city of Antonin Dvořák, the Czech composer who utilized melodies of Negro Spirituals in his Symphony from the New World. I always thought of him as a guardian spirit so hopefully he would guide my in his homeland. | | |
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| | My Journey to the Podium – part 8: Epilogue by Nina Kennedy I hope you’ve enjoyed reading this condensed, G-rated version of portions of my autobiography. For the juicy details of my romantic life, you’ll have to wait for the book and maybe the R-rated film and maybe the television series. Stay tuned… | | |
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March is Women's Herstory Month! Here are the women we chose to highlight. |
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| | Ella Sheppard by Nina Kennedy Ella Sheppard: musician, composer, and matriarch of the original Fisk Jubilee Singers. Born a slave in 1851, she grew up on a plantation in Nashville, Tennessee. | | |
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| | Gertrude Stein by Nina Kennedy Gertrude Stein – writer, lesbian, American ex-patriate who spent the majority of her days in Paris with her lover of 40 years, Alice B. Toklas. | | |
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| | Sappho by Nina Kennedy Sappho's poetry was well-known and greatly admired through much of antiquity. She was among the 9 lyric poets deemed major by scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria | | |
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| | Pocahontas by Nina Kennedy .... “Gamble” being my mother’s maiden name – was an Irishman who settled in the hills of Virginia. He took a wife who was of Powhatan origin. | | |
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Gloria Steinem celebrated her 82nd Birthday this month! |
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