Call for Entries for RAC Adult Member Show
The Rye Arts Center has announced a “call for entries” for its second annual Adult Member Show. The exhibition will take place from June 3 - 16, with a festive opening reception on Sunday, June 3, from 4 to 6 p.m.

Well-Crafted – Lighten Up
Spring is coming and with it thoughts of how to brighten your home. A quick but effective change can begin with lampshades. Although we show our designs on small shades for candlestick lamps, any size paper shade will work. (You just have to adjust the amount of materials.) Using very available supplies, follow our simple directions to turn “Plain Jane” lampshades into gems and let the light shine on.

 

Morsels on Rye
Weddings
Births
A Golden Couple

 

Beyond Rye – Our Third Antarctic Adventure
My wife Franny and I left on the long journey for our third trip to the Antarctic in mid-December with “courage high and hearts aglow.” The main impetus for our trip was to meet up again with our old friends, the Ponchicks (whom we met on our first trip in 1983), and to get to know their two children, Jeffrey and Laura, who turned out to be truly delightful.

Spiritual Matters _ Truer Words Were Never Spoken
Someone asked me the other day why the church uses the color purple for Lent. Purple, after all, has been a color associated with royalty since the days of the Roman Empire. Why, when we are humbling ourselves, and taking stock of our faults, would we dress the church and the clergy in a color meant for kings?

Anything Goes at the Y
If you belong to the Rye YMCA, and are so inclined, you could spend every weekday from 5:45 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. in a group exercise class. On Saturdays, classes run from 7:15 to 11:30 a.m. and on Sundays, the day of rest, classes are offered from 8:30 to 11:45 a.m.

Cook’s Corner A Dish That Pops
For years, living in Manhattan, I loved getting into cabs and asking to be driven somewhere. Don't ask me why, but cab drivers always asked me where I was from. I did, from time to time, resent the fact that they so easily detected that I was not a New Yorker, but I loved telling them that I was born in Omaha.