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Nuns, Waves, and Dolmades

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April 17th 2012
Today we took a different bus route, this time further into Queens, to visit Sister Corde Somma, Mad Mama's music teacher in HS. She is in an assisted living facility on Parsons Blvd in Whitestone. We stopped for some good Italian cookies, which the clerk packaged in a big white box and tied it with thin red and white string -- exactly the same as they did 60 years ago. We arrived at the co ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more