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Today (Saturday) is Ten Chimneys Day in Wisconsin, the anniversary of the day Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne got married all of a sudden in New York City, 1922.
They’d been secretly engaged for a while, had been apart, playing in separate plays and had a couple of weeks before their next assignments were due to [...]

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I attended a wonderful seminar and workshop this evening at Ten Chimneys, the world-class house museum and estate of Broadway greats Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. Ten Chimneys’ fifth tour season will begin in a few weeks.
In preparation for it, and as a continuing education offering to docents, tonight’s seminar was on the art and [...]

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Every once in a great while someone crosses your path, walks part of life’s journey with you, befriends, influences and invests in you, leaving you forever changed. That was the case with Dale Jens, my high school music teacher. Thirty years after graduating I wrote a letter to him [...]

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