A Random Assortment

~ Nun-chic.

~ Yuengling's ice cream is coming back! On our brewery tour we saw the old building where it was made during the Prohibition to keep Yuengling afloat.

~ Good thing Francisco built himself a standing desk: "Sitting at Work for Hours Can Be As Unhealthy As Smoking."

~ On the recently reguilded Diana statue by Augustus Saint-Gaudens at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She used to stand on top of Madison Square Garden where O. Henry imagined her in dialogue with the Statue of Liberty:

"Ye have the best job for a statue in the whole town, Miss Diana,” Mrs. Liberty said, in an unexpected Irish brogue.Launch media viewer

 

Answering in a clear soprano voice, Miss Diana took pity. “It must be awfully lonesome down there with so much water around you,” she told Mrs. Liberty. “I don’t see how you ever keep your hair in curl. And that Mother Hubbard you are wearing went out 10 years ago.”