Mid-Week Libation: There Are Always Four Choices

We're in Corsica! Visiting megalithic monuments, eating brocciu cheese & listening to Corsican polyphonic singing! We're also celebrating Banned Books Week & our favorite Greek drag queen's birthday!

Mid-Week Libation is our weekly curated splash of inspiration and culture!

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Filitosa: The Prehistoric Archaeological Site in Corsica

[Photos by Ellen Gartside]

• 8,000 Years of Mystery and History (Official Site of Filitosa)

• Archaeological Sites in Corsica: Filitosa (via The Thinking Traveller)

• Secrets of Filitosa - Explore Corsica's Famous Prehistoric Site (via Cool Corsica)

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Cheese of the Week: Brocciu aka “The Most Famous Cheese in Corsica”

[Pierre Bona, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons]

• Click here for the printable recipe for Corsican Mint Omelette (Omelette à la Menthe) from Jill Colonna at Mad About Macarons!

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Listen to the Beautiful Harmonies of Corsican Polyphonic Singing

• Click here for a Youtube playlist of Traditional Folk Songs from Corsica!

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Celebrating Banned Books Week | October 1 – 7, 2023!

“This is a dangerous time for readers and the public servants who provide access to reading materials. Readers, particularly students, are losing access to critical information, and librarians and teachers are under attack for doing their jobs.” - Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom [Source: American Library Association]

• Click here for more information & resources from the American Library Association!

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Happy Birthday to Pythia! (born October 4, 1994)

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Artists Born Today: October 4th

Visual Artists:

Today is the birthday of Lucas Cranach the Younger, Francesco Solimena, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Jean-François Millet, William Griggs, Francis Augustus Silva, Elizabeth Jane Gardner, Emma Beach Thayer, Vittorio Matteo Corcos, Sidney Paget, Maximilian Lenz, Addison Thomas Millar, Frederic Remington, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Robert Lawson, Otti Berger, Lil Picard, Carl Heidenreich, Rene Cloke, Francisco Narváez, György Kepes, Berta Rahm, Urszula Kolaczkowska, Mildred Waltrip, Francisco Dosamantes, Lanier Meaders, Wolf Kahn, Terence Conran, Lowell Blair Nesbitt, Dado, Francisco Corzas, Susan Hale Kemenyffy, Aki Kuroda, Mario Algaze, Diane Itter, Chen Zhen, Marleen Daniels and Kazuki Takahashi!

Writers, Philosophers & Scholars:

Today is the birthday of Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Edward Stratemeyer, Hugh McCrae, Damon Runyon, Jun Tsuji, Miriam Van Waters, Alan L. Hart, Dorothy Lawrence, P. Kunhiraman Nair, Alain Daniélou, Mary Two-Axe Earley, Carrie Allen McCray, René Marqués, Donald J. Sobol, James Forman, Alvin Toffler, Richard Rorty, Cynthia McLeod, Jackie Collins, Anne Rice, Alma Luz Villanueva, Robert Gibbons, Luis Sepúlveda, Hitonari Tsuji, Manasi Pradhan, Tim Wise, Saladin Ahmed and Rupi Kaur!

Musicians & Composers:

Today is the birthday of Chino Pozo, Violeta Parra, Walter Bishop Jr., Leon Thomas, Steve Swallow, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Eddie Gómez, Andreas Vollenweider, Chris Lowe, Jon Secada, Robert Hurst, Vanessa Daou, BT and Lil Mama!

Film/TV/Stage:

Today is the birthday of Buster Keaton, George Sidney, Robert Wilson, Susan Sarandon, Christoph Waltz, Liev Schreiber, Reggie Lee, Alicia Silverstone and Pythia!

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This Week’s Words of Wisdom: Alicia Gaspar De Alba

“There are always four choices to every decision: the wise choice, the foolish choice, the safe choice and the choice that someone else makes for you.” - Alicia Gaspar De Alba

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