On Facebook I came across a post from a local TV station news about a mansion in the vicinity that’s for sale for almost $4 million.  Part of it looks a bit like Collinwood.  I don’t know if I can post pictures here, but they call it Castle Bristlecone, so Google it and you’ll see.

In the comments on the post, one person said: “It’s the Collinwood of SW PA!”  (No one reacted to that.)

And when looking it up, I came across an article which said, “Castle Bristlecone was inspired, in part, by Seaview Terrace, also known as the Carey Mansion in Newport, R.I., and design elements are pulled from British and French architecture in the Châteauesque style.”

So, it really is “our” Collinwood!

When Roger is saying about being a "bright, attractive girl," who is is speaking to?  I'm assuming it must be Vicki or Carolyn, but can't place which it would be.

I found this quote from the slideshow - the 1841 PT one -  to be rather strange writing.  It was, "but you MUST mention none of what happened."  Surely, if you want to warn someone to not do something, you would say you "must not" mention . . . and not you must mention none!!!

There's a lawyer whom I do a lot of typing for, and a first name that's come up a lot recently in something he's working on is "Geosette."  With so many words starting "geo," in my mind I had always pronounced it as gee-oh-sette, which seemed a strange name.  Tonight it suddenly dawned on me that the "e" is presumably just to show that the "g" is pronounced like a "j" and therefore, the name is Josette!!!

It just seemed so weird, with the other spelling I never thought of it, and all of a sudden I see that this person was Josette!

When I try to go to Current Talk a message comes up saying there's an error and
"The database value you're trying to insert does not exist:  value"

Since the pandemic, our library doesn’t get newspapers on the current day, and the New York Times is often 2 or more weeks behind.  There’s also ProQuest online, which one can access through a library account, and it has all of the New York Times, but about a month behind.  Sunday, November 5, 2023 didn’t come to the library (or disappeared) and I had to read that one through ProQuest. 

As I was going through, I was moving to the next page when I thought, wait! That looked like Jonathan Frid!  What could that be?

I went back and it was nothing like him.  It turned out to be Joel Kinnaman as astronaut Ed Baldwin in something called “For All Mankind.”  There are 3 pictures of him from different seasons.

If you’re able to look it up, it’s the November 5, 2023 New York Times, Arts Section, Page 15.  If you cover the bottom of the first picture so that only the top of the nose and up shows, the hair and eyes, at a quick glance, really looked like Frid as I went by.  As I said, once I saw the whole picture, it’s nothing like him!  I’ve had this on my screen at times, though, and every time, for a moment, I think it’s Frid!!!

Since 1970 Parallel Time was based on Rebecca, I thought that was enough of a connection to mention this!

Last night and tonight was a 2-part Cannon, which I’ve seen many times now, but last night discovered a detail I had never noticed.  Joan Fontaine plays a famous actress.  At one point one of her old films is playing in the background and Cannon enters and they talk (or scream) over it.  One doesn’t see or hear much of it, but last night, just before Cannon started to talk, I heard the actress on the screen saying something about “you knew she wore that dress and let me wear it” or something like that.  I thought, Oh!  That sounds like Rebecca.  I didn't remember, but looked it up and Joan WAS the star of Rebecca.  So, here they were playing one of her real films as the fictional actress’ film!!

Naomi says "my sons," (plural) - what other son?