The toe-tapping music of Irving Berlin and others delighted the crowd at Saturday night's Harrisburg Art Association soiree featuring the paintings of Earl Blust and others. The musicians were Hal Fox on guitar and wife and violinist Felicity and they were a WOW even when they somewhat mutilated Puttin' on the Ritz. "We gotta practice that one," Hal said with a laugh to our applause. Hal is pastor at a Steeltown church and a fan of Errol Flynn's swashbuckling movies of the '30s. Felicity, a native of the Newcastle-on-Tyne area, shows infinite patience when Bob and I have questions about things British. She assists us with our English crossword puzzles on occasion and when we asked what "humbugs" were, she brought us a bag of the sweets on her next visit to England. They are a remarkable couple . . . I hear that David Hoffman has been playing in the kitchen making peach jam and other treats rather than working on his next book. We still have autographed copies of his I'll Be Home for the Christmas Rush, a series of letters sent by his father from England and the continent during the Second World War . . . No sooner finished yesterday's post than we got one last visitor to the store. The lady was from San Francisco and--yeah, you guessed it--she found us on that "10 Most Popular . . . " website. Maybe I should introduce a special just for such occasions . . . http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g52787-Activities-Harrisburg_Pennsylvania.html
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