Sunday, June 14, 2026

Julia Alvarez, on writing:

 
But the sensibility of the writer, whether fiction or poetry, comes from paying attention.
I tell my students that writing doesn't begin when you sit down to write.
It's a way of being in the world, and the essence of it is paying attention.
– Julia Alvarez.

Recommended reading - Mastering Black & White Photography


Mastering Black & White Photography

by John Walmsley.

Published by Ammonite Press.
Published 2016.

ISBN-10: 1781450870
ISBN-13: 9781781450871
 
Description:

Mastering Black & White Photography is the definitive work on how to shoot black & white images on today's sophisticated digital SLR and compact digital cameras and smart phones.

Jargon-busting text, illustrated with the author's own stunning images, explains the theory behind digital photography, along with a guide to the equipment and software needed to take outstanding images. The book explains the basics of exposure and good composition, file types, manipulating captured images using popular software, and applying special effects (such as split toning, simulating film grain, lith prints and using cyanotypes). A printing chapter discusses outputting and displaying images.

Born on this day – Harriet Beecher Stowe:


Harriet Beecher Stowe


Writer

Abolitionist

June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896

Credits:

Books:


A Dog's Mission (1881); Agnes of Sorrento (1862); Betty's Bright Idea (1875); Betty's Bright Idea / Deacon Pitkin's Farm / The First Christmas of New England (2004); Bible Heroines (1878); Captain Kidd's Money and Other Stories (1876); Daisy's First Winter, and other Stories (1867); David and His Throne (1855); Dred / aka Nina Gordon (1856); Father Henson's Story of His Own Life (1998); Footsteps of the Master (1876); Gaslit Nightmares (1988); Geography for my Children (1855); Golden Fruit in Silver Baskets (1859); House and Home Papers (1864); Lady Byron Vindicated (1870); Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1889); Little Foxes (1865); Little Pussy Willow (1870); Men of our Times (1868); My Wife and I (1871); Old Town Fireside Stories (1871); Oldtown Folks (1966); Our Charley (1858); Palmetto Leaves (1873); Pink and White Tyranny (1871); Poganuc People (1878); Queer Little People (1867); Regional Sketches (1972); Religious Poems (poems) (1865); Reply on Behalf of the Women of America to the Christian Address of many Thousand Women of Great Britain (1863); Sam Lawson's Oldstown Fireside (1871); Stories About Our Dogs (1865); Stories and Sketches for the Young (2003); Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands (1854); Tell It All (2003); The American Woman's Home (1869); The Chimney Corner (1868); The Dover Anthology of Classic Christmas Stories (2023); The First Christmas in New England (2002); The Giant Book of Classic Ghost Stories (1997); The Harriet Beecher Stowe Reader (1993); The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853); The Mammoth Book of Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories (1995); The Minister's Wooing (1859); The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (1992); The Oxford Harriet Beecher Stowe Reader (1999); The Pearl of Orr's Island (1862); The Penguin Book of Classic Fantasy by Women (1977); The Ravages of a Carpet (1864); The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1992); Uncle Sam's Emancipation: Earthly Care a Heavenly Discipline, and Other Tales and Sketches (1953); Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852); Uncle Tom's Cabin / The Minister's Wooing / Oldtown Folks (1982); We and Our Neighbors (1875); Woman in Sacred History (1873).

Movies and television:


A Cabana do Pai Tomás (1909 / 1969); Alice Is Stage Struck (1925); Have You Got Any Castles? (1938); In the Margins (2024); La capanna dello zio Tom (1918); Le théâtre de la jeunesse (1963); Let Her Witness It (2021); Manga sekai mukashi banashi (1977); Mickey's Mellerdrammer (1933); My Wife and I (1925); Omnibus / Segment: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1955); Pearl of Love (1925); Topsy and Eva (1927); Uncle Tom's Bungalow (1937); Uncle Tom's Cabaña (1947); Uncle Tom's Cabin (1903 / 1910 / 1913 / 1914 / 1918 / 1927 / 1965 / 1977 / 1987).


Born on this day – May Allison:

 

May Allison


Actress

June 14, 1890 – March 27, 1989

Credits:

A Fool There Was (1915); A Successful Adventure (1918); Almost Married (1919); Are All Men Alike? (1920); Big Game (1921); Big Tremaine (1916); Castles in the Air (1919); David Harum (1915); Extravagance (1921); Fair and Warmer (1919); Flapper Wives (1924); Held in Trust (1920); Her Indiscretion (1927); Her Inspiration (1918); I Want My Man (1925); In for Thirty Days (1919); Life's Blind Alley (1916); Lillo of the Sulu Seas (1916); Men of Steel (1926); Mismates (1926); Mister 44 (1916); One Increasing Purpose (1927); Pardoned (1915); Peggy Does Her Darndest (1919); Pidgin Island (1916); Screen Snapshots, Series 2, No. 1-F (1921); Screen Snapshots, Series 2, No. 22-F (1922); Social Hypocrites (1918); The Broad Road (1923); The Broken Cross (1916); The Buzzard's Shadow (1915); The Cheater (1920); The City (1926); The Come-Back (1916); The End of the Road (1915); The Gamble (1916); The Governor's Lady (1915); The Great Question (1915); The Greater Glory (1926); The Hidden Children (1917); The House of a Thousand Scandals (1915); The Island of Intrigue (1919); The Last Card (1921); The Man in the Sombrero (1916); The Marriage of William Ashe (1921); The Masked Rider (1916); The Other Side of the Door (1916); The Promise (1917); The Return of Mary (1918); The River of Romance (1916); The Secret Wire (1916); The Secretary of Frivolous Affairs (1915); The Telephone Girl (1927); The Testing of Mildred Vane (1918); The Tragic Circle (1915); The Uplifters (1919); The Walk-Offs (1920); The Winning of Beatrice (1918); The Woman Who Fooled Herself (1922); Wreckage (1925); Youth for Sale (1924).

Born on this day – Burl Ives:

 

Burl Ives


Actor

Writer

Singer

Musician

June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995


Born on this day – Gisèle Casadesus:

 

Gisèle Casadesus


Actress

June 14, 1914 – September 24, 2017


Born on this day – Dorothy McGuire:

 

Dorothy McGuire


Actress

June 14, 1916 – September 13, 2001

Credits:

8th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2002); A Summer Place (1959); A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945); AFI Life Achievement Award (1978–1989); America at the Movies (1976); American Masters (2001); American Playhouse (1988); Amos (1985); Another Part of the Forest (1972); Best Doggone Dog in the West: The Making of Walt Disney's 'Old Yeller' (1997); Between the Darkness and the Dawn (1985); Biography (1997); Callaway Went Thataway (1951); Caroline? (1990); Christmas with Walt Disney (2009); Claudia (1943); Claudia and David (1946); Climax! (1954–1956); Disney's Greatest Lullabies Volume Two (1986); Fantasy Island (1983); Flight of the Doves (1971); Fonda on Fonda (1992); Friendly Persuasion (1956); Gentleman's Agreement (1947); Ghost Dancing (1983); Glitter (1985); Highway to Heaven (1986–1988); Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1969); Hotel (1985); I Want You (1951); Invitation (1952); Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1954); Little Women (1978 / 1979); Lux Video Theatre (1954); Make Haste to Live (1954); MGM Parade (1955); Mister 880 (1950); Mother Didn't Tell Me (1950); Old Yeller (1957); Reward Unlimited (1944); Rich Man, Poor Man (1976); Robert Montgomery Presents (1951); She Waits (1972); St. Elsewhere (1986); Summer Heat (1987); Summer Magic (1963); Susan Slade (1961); Swiss Family Robinson (1960); Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making (2002); TCM Remembers 2001 (2002); The 2th Annual American Cinema Awards (1985); The 38th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1986); The Art Director (1949); The Best of Broadway (1954); The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960); The Ed Sullivan Show (1956); The Enchanted Cottage (1945); The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965); The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel (1979); The Last Best Year (1990); The Love Boat (1982–1984); The Magical World of Disney (1957–1980); The Making of 'the Day the Earth Stood Still' (2008); The Notebook (1985); The Orange British Academy Film Awards (2002); The Red Skelton Hour (1964); The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker (1958); The Runaways (1975); The Spiral Staircase (1946); The Tonight Show (1956); The Young and the Restless (1984); This Earth Is Mine (1959); This Is Your Life (1973); Three Coins in the Fountain (1954); Till the End of Time (1946); Trial (1955); True Fear: The Making of Psycho (2015); Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years (1997); Warner Bros. Celebration of Tradition, June 2, 1990 (1990); What's My Line? (1954); Wide Wide World (1955).