Artists of Apalachicola Association

TRUE OR FALSE: This is a painting of Castle of Neuschwanstein (which translates to "new swan stone") in the southern Alps of Germany. It was the inspiration for Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty Castle. This painting of it was painted by Adolf Hi**er. True or false?

"Don't Rain on My Halloween Parade" ("Funny Ghoul") Lyrics and singing by Frederic Kahler.Don't tell me not to live, I'm dead alreadyLife's candy corn and I'm a funny FreddyDon't bring around a saint to rain o...

My email's been blowing up as we get closer and closer to Er****on Day. Did anyone else get this in their email inbox?

A: He says he is nowhere near 80 years old. Well, 78 is pretty damn close to 80.

B: If he is talking in terms of minutes and seconds he's nowhere near 80. However:

"This presumes he makes it to 79
Sometimes fascists die on the vine."

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY TO LOCAL ENTREPRENEUR ISABEL PATERITSAS !

On 27 August 1883, the volcano of Krakatoa island in modern-day Indonesia exploded four times. It is said that the sound was so loud that anyone within 10 miles of it would have gone deaf. Of course, anyone within 10 miles would have drowned from the tsunamis this cataclysm created. Estimates of the death toll are as high as 120,000.

What were the strange aftermaths from this, the greatest volcanic activity in recorded history? "There are numerous documented reports of groups of human skeletons floating across the Indian Ocean on rafts of volcanic pumice and washing up on the east coast of Africa up to a year after the eruption." (Wikipedia)

Donald Olson, a physics and astronomy professor at Texas State University, and his colleagues, determined that debris thrown into the atmosphere by the massive eruption created vivid red twilights in Europe from November 1883 until February 1884. To reach their conclusion, the astronomers determined Munch's vantage point in the painting. "One of the high points of our research trip to Oslo came when we rounded a bend in the road and realized we were standing in the exact spot where Munch had been 120 years ago," Professor Olson said.

The Norwegian artist Edvard Munch painted Der Schrei/The Scream several times. His most famous version was painted in 1893. Munch would have noticed the red twilights from the location where the painting takes place.

"It was very satisfying to stand in the exact spot where an artist had his experience," he said. "The real importance of finding the location, though, was to determine the direction of view in the painting. We could see that Munch was looking to the south-west - exactly where the Krakatoa twilights appeared in the winter of 1883-84."

PARIS: House of Balmain, Spring/Summer 2025. The face images in the dresses, jackets and shorts were rendered by the hand-embroidering of hundreds of thousands of pearlescent beads. The designer is Olivier Rousteing, who was the first Black lead designer at a Paris luxury house. His long-term commitment to broadening fashion’s spectrum includes women from across multiple generations on his runway.

It's been days already, but I still am so very emotional at this, our very shared loss. I've loved her, always, but just am not prepared for this, still. It's not that she was a legend or a woman excelling in a business that retires you at 40. No, it was something else far more personal. Maggie Smith was the pinnacle of the individual. She, I'm realizing now, was a beacon in one's long, struggling journey to find out just who you are, indeed if you can know it by the time your time is up. I think she did. I will treasure her every performance and those I've yet to know and feel. I will tremble at her magnificent control over words and emotions. I will stand in awe with the heart-rendering reminder that she was once a little girl, a child like all of us were, who somehow, through the vagaries of existence and a pluck for the theatrical, became that Miss Jean Brodie long after that role was fulfilled and its awards presented, a teacher of such eloquence of inspiration and determination of love. God bless you, Dame Smith. You meant far more to me than I ever realized.

King praises 'national treasure' Maggie Smith as Harry Potter star dies at 89 | ITV News In a statement issued via their publicist, her family said: “It is with great sadness we have to announce the death of Dame Maggie Smith."• Subscribe to ITV ...

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Here's our local emergency management page. Please note that Dana & I are inland and we are inside a one-story brick building. Our situation is nothing like Hurricane Michael. We no longer live right on the bay. We have had the large pine trees that concerned us in the past removed off the property. All window blinds will be lowered and shut. We will keep in contact with others and monitor all Franklin County emergency updates. We will also follow protocol and leave our names in the local data bank of people who choose to not evacuate at this time.

We have a generator and plenty of candles and large Culligan water-cooler containers of fresh water and lots of canned foods, and of course, being in the South, we have sweet tea. I know our colony of outdoor cats will find good spots to hunker down, such as the spaces below our decking in back.

We wish everyone staying behind or evacuating a safe and stress-free experience as we ride out this latest dangerous weather system. Mother Nature always has the last word, and the last thing we want to do is argue with her. BE SAFE ALL!

Franklin County Florida Emergency Management For information during a natural or man-made diaster call our office at 850-653-8977.