These clocks go silent to mark time change
OSPREY – When Eastern Standard Time kicks in at 2 a.m. Sunday and most Americans enjoy an extra hour of sleep, Scott Paddock may find the annual silence eerie, if not downright unnerving. For 11 weird hours, Paddock will go without the ambient drone of the classic machinery that has provided a soothing soundtrack to […]
Former President George W. Bush to headline series (Sarasota Herald Tribune)
Former President George W. Bush will headline the Ringling College Library Association Town Hall Lecture Series in 2014. He is among five speakers in the series, announced to patrons today at the final lecture of the 2013 season. Bush was visiting a Sarasota elementary school on Sept. 11, 2001, when terrorists attacked the World Trade […]
Tom Brokaw at Van Wezel for Town Hall lecture
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Gabby Giffords’ husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, speaks about gun control during Sarasota visit
Sarasota, Florida – American astronaut Mark Kelly has been in space four times, flew in combat missions during the Gulf War, is a prostate cancer survivor and is a best-selling author. Kelly’s new mission: fighting for better gun control. It’s a topic he focuses on during a lecture in Sarasota. Kelly is the guest speaker […]
Astronaut Mark Kelly Visits Sarasota
Sarasota Magazine For the fourth date in this year’s Town Hall series, the Ringling College Library Association welcomed Captain Mark Kelly—astronaut, retired U.S. Navy captain, prostate cancer survivor and husband of former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was the victim of an assassination attempt in January 2011. Kelly’s life reads a like a well-written novel, […]
Mark Kelly sees hope in solving gun violence issue
By CARL MARIO NUDI Bradenton Herald SARASOTA — Mark Kelly, retired NASA astronaut, Navy veteran and husband of former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, spoke Monday about his efforts to control gun violence in America. At the press conference before his highly inspirational talk Monday in the Ringling College Library Association Town Hall Lecture Series, Kelly […]
Gabrielle Giffords has macabre sense of humor, husband says
By Billy Cox Herald-Tribune SARASOTA – Inevitably, when guests visit their home in Tucson, Ariz., for the first time, Gabrielle Giffords will display a macabre twist of humor. “She’ll go over to the freezer,” her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, told a full house Monday morning at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, “pull out […]
Famous surgeon loves Ringling student’s portrait
By Donna Koehn, Herald-Tribune Wednesday, February 27, 2013 You have to excuse Chris Baldwin if he’s walking on air. The student at the Ringling College of Art + Design in Sarasota created this portrait of noted neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who was speaking in town Wednesday as part of the Ringling College Library Association Town Hall […]
Doctor charms sold-out audience
By Donna Koehn, Herald-Tribune / Wednesday, February 27, 2013 Ben Carson — Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon, philanthropist and recent thorn-in-the-side to President Barack Obama — charmed a sold-out audience Wednesday morning at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall. The crowd, mostly retirees, frequently applauded Carson’s words encouraging the support of education, a deep faith in God […]
Ben Carson prepares for Sarasota speeches
By Donna Koehn, Herald-Tribune Monday, February 25, 2013 Ben Carson’s prestigious life and work have led to a documentary, a TV movie, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the directorship of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and the authorship of five best-sellers. But it was his provocative keynote address at the National Prayer Breakfast with […]
