WHAT’ S NEWS IN FOX CHAPEL AREA
FOX CHAPEL GARDEN CLUB PRESENTS GLITTER AND GLOW
Fox Chapel Garden Club will present its major fundraising event of the year— Glitter and Glow— on Dec. 6 at the Fox Chapel Golf Club from 7 to 9 p. m. The event will benefit area conservation groups and environmental education, including a scholarship for a graduating Fox Chapel High School student who submits an essay in the spring of his / her senior year.
Other beneficiaries of the group’ s fundraising activities include Cooper- Siegel and Sharpsburg community library gardens, Fox Chapel Area School District’ s elementary and high school gardens, St. Margaret Foundation’ s“ Garden of Hope,” Pittsburgh Botanic Garden, Fox Chapel Parks Commission and other related organizations.
The Fox Chapel Garden Club creates one-of-a-kind live plant and green works of art for your home or office.
The Glitter and Glow event includes a delicious light dinner buffet, cash bar, silent auction and significant raffled baskets. The evening is a ladies-only event where new and old friends and colleagues can shop, nibble, and bid on some exciting holiday splendor.
The cover charge of $ 35 includes your entrance fee and a delicious dinner and dessert buffet. Tickets can be ordered directly by mailing a check made out to Fox Chapel Garden Club, c / o Cris Scott, 125 Catalpa Ridge Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15238. Questions can be directed to cris. scott125 @ gmail. com.
AAUW PRESENTS UPCOMING PROGRAM
On Tuesday, Nov. 14, at 10 a. m., the Fox Chapel Area Affiliate of the American Association of University Women( AAUW) will present“ The Humanities Go Digital: The Six Degrees of Francis Bacon Project” at Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church.
How would Francis Bacon have connected to other philosophers in 1600 if the internet had been invented? Who might William Shakespeare have“ friended” on Facebook? And what scientific revelations would Isaac Newton have shared with colleagues via tweets? Unknowable... until now.
The Six Degrees of Francis Bacon Project teams the Carnegie Mellon and Georgetown University humanities departments to explore the“ what if” of social media connections four centuries ago. This fascinating exercise recreates the early modern social network of prominent historical figures, uncovering personal relationships that allow us to see who would’ ve known whom, and when— and even how— in early modern Britain.
Associate Professor of English Christopher Warren directs the EBA( Bachelor of Arts in English) Program at CMU. His research interests include digital humanities, law and literature, and the history of political thought. His first book,“ Literature and the Law of Nations,” was published in 2015 by the Oxford University Press.
The public is welcome to attend this free AAUW-sponsored presentation.
AAUW advances equity for women and girls through advocacy, philanthropy, education, and research.
For more information, contact Lindsay Bond Totten, Publicity Coordinator, Fox Chapel Area Affiliate AAUW, at lbtotten @ comcast. net.
CAROL SKINGER SOLO ART SHOW FEATURED AT COOPER-SIEGEL COMMUNITY LIBRARY
Carol Skinger is best known for watercolor and gouache paintings bold in style, drawn from the imagination, of both abstract and recognizable places. Watercolor, gouache, ink and pastel are her primary mediums. Skinger resides in Fox Chapel and has lived in Pittsburgh for over 30 years. Originally from Vermont, she grew up in the Lake Champlain Islands and in Stowe at the foot of Mt. Mansfield.
During the six-month solo art show at Cooper-Siegel Community Library, running through November 8, attendees can look for views from her imagination and for views of the area served by the library including Rustbelt Kayaking( at Brilliant Railroad Bridge), Aspinwall Riverfront Park( Tom Otterness sculpture and slide), Greenwood Cemetery in O’ Hara( a painting of a Civil War monument she came across there while looking for August Wilson’ s gravesite), two paintings of the striped spire of Grace Methodist Church on N. Canal Street, and soon-to-open Hitchhiker Brewing Co.( former Fort Pitt Brewing Co.) in Sharpsburg as seen from Route 28, and a
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