Carolann's Newsletters

Dear Friends, Tangents: On July 13, 1977, a 25-hour blackout hit the New York City area after lightning struck upstate power lines.

Dear Friends, Tangents: July’s ‘Buck supermoon’ on Wednesday will be 2022’s biggest full moon:  July’s full moon — nicknamed the Buck

Dear Friends, Tangents: Happy Monday. July 11, 1960: American author Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is published and becomes a classic,

Dear Friends, Tangents: Happy Friday. 1996: The British ban the Spice Girls releases their debut single, Wannabe, which helps make them an

Dear Friends, Tangents: Fiesta de San Fermin: Running of the Bulls, Pamplona, Spain. Tanabata, Star Festival, Japan. Ringo Starr, musician, b. 1940. Robert A. Heinlein,

Dear Friends, Tangents: 1928: The first full-length all-talking (with dialogue) motion picture, Lights of New York, released by Warner Bros., premieres in