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...Street, and you will hit Elfreth's Alley, believed to be the oldest residential street in the U.S. You may notice tiny mirrors jutting from the top floors. Called busy-body mirrors, these contraptions, which enable people to see who is coming down the street, were brought back from Holland by Franklin. Also look out for black iron plaques that depict four fists locked in the fire fighter's carry. These plaques indicated that a house was insured against fire, insurance being one of Franklin's imports from London...
...Just 10 years ago there were only four summer jazz festivals in the country; now there are more than a dozen, and Otnes says "a lot of them have lost their special character." Not his, of course: from July 14 to 19, singer Dianne Reeves, bassist Dave Holland, saxophonist Michael Brecker and a slew of artists from Norway's fertile jazz scene will descend on the small town on the North Atlantic, one of Europe's most serene spots for jazz. Special character? The tiny French village of Marciac, just north of the Spanish border, has it in spades...
...show opened the way it began, with a ditty about the songwriting process. Samuel H. Perwin ’04, Laurel T. Holland ’06, Derrick L. Wang ’06 and Smith created a fun number about early morning writer’s block...
...Typically inspiration comes last minute and from that idea we wanted a gospel, hand-clappy closing,” Holland said of their opus...
...emcee had to stop Holland from taking off her black swimsuit for the beachwear competition, explaining that Americans do not generally go to the beach nude...