I highly recommend

This Free Fine workshop was the best one I have ever attended on ANY subject. 

It was Excellent!
If you ever get a chance to take this one-day course, do not hesitate!  It included a free bkfst
and lunch, but the best part was Judy herself.  A fine fine speaker and teacher with the best audio-visuals

I've ever seen. If you are researching your family's history, and want to discover the tools you need, take this course.

Judy G. Russell, the legal Genealogist  4 lectures on the intersection of family history research and the law. 
Topics range from using court records to understanding DNA testing

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At the Jewish Museum TODAY

I heard a fascinating talk by Dr. Alan Kraut (A history professor from American University in DC, 

who specializes in US Immigration). He posed the question:

What happens after immigration? 
He spoke of 19th C immigration into the US, with an emphasis on the Jews who came to America. 

He was highly informative, especially for me, with my background.

Then I walked thru the new exhibit: 

Beyond Chicken Soup

Jews & Medicine in America 

There is so much to study at the exhibit that I will have to go back and see it again.  As a member I can
bring a friend for free on Wednesday.   I would highly recommend that you all go see it.  I believe
the exhibit will be there until June 2016

I'm a Registered Nurse who trained at a Jewish Hospital in Baltimore, a city where we had a lot of immigrants.

My mother's sister trained at that hospital, before me, as did the Sinai doctor my aunt married.
When I did private duty nursing at Sinai, one of my patients had typhoid.
And I was a PHN, a Public Health Nurse in south east Baltimore, near the piers where immigrants lived in

tight urban settings.  We had tuberculosis clinics in Baltimore in the 1960's, and I made home visits to many

Tb patients.

I am hands-on familiar with what Doctor K described. Immigrants brought in bugs that were new to us. 
I took Johns Hopkins public health physicians on a Fell's Point walking tour to describe and point out the
neighborhood's role as a source of so many communicable diseases.

The museum's exhibit covers much of the early history of Jewish men becoming doctors, as opposed to baseball players,

a topic Dr. Kraut covered in his hour-plus talk.  I wasn't bored for a minute!    Zippy

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Lena Horne

On Mar 8, 2016, at 8:53 PM, Zippy Larson <zippytours@gmail.com> wrote:

At the Pratt, her daughter spoke, and captivated us all with her stories about her Mom. If you ever heard the

beautiful Miss Lena Horne sing, and loved her, you would have relished the family stories I heard.

Her daughter, who attended Radcliffe, (sp) shared personal memories, tonight, about the Calhouns
who stayed in the South and those who moved to the North, and the history of the family from the Civil War to WW2.

It surely is one good reason to live in the city. I left my house at 6:35, easily found a parking space a block
from the Pratt, the talk began at 7, I found a front row seat, and I was on my way home by 8:00PM.

What an over the moon evening!!   Zippy

PS. Cab Calloway's daughter was sitting right in front of me!

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