Tag: Mary Baker Eddy
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Thanksgiving tribute to Mary Baker Eddy
In Seattle there are several prominent historic landmarks that were inspired by Mary Baker Eddy, and whose history is associated with Thanksgiving. Originally built as Christian Science churches, these structures now serve a variety of uses. Recently I have been researching some of these buildings, who built them, why, and how. I am learning more about the branches…
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Val Kilmer raises biography to an art form with CINEMA TWAIN
Val Kilmer’s CINEMA TWAIN is unique–creative, dramatic, laugh-out-loud funny, and visually stunning. I almost forgot it was an expression of historical biography. The spirit of Mark Twain was expressed so vividly, perhaps more Twain than if it were Twain himself. It was part stand-up comedy, part reading, part theater, part performance art. The image of…
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Presidential elections and woman’s hour
Mary Baker Eddy and Victoria Woodhull discussion at Daystar Retirement Village Today Cindy Safronoff held a book talk for Crossing Swords: Mary Baker Eddy vs. Victoria Claflin Woodhull and the Battle for the Soul of Marriage at Daystar Retirement Village in West Seattle. It was an intimate audience of about 9 people — a mix…
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Crossing Swords on sale at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store offers 20% off at events, so Crossing Swords: Mary Baker Eddy vs. Victoria Claflin Woodhull and the Battle for the Soul of Marriage by Cindy Safronoff will be on discount on August 2, 2016 as part of an in-store event at 7:00PM. The book is now on the event shelf at the front of the store. It is also on the “Women’s,…
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Harvard Book Store hosts Cindy Safronoff Aug 2
Harvard Book Store will host a reading and signing event for author Cindy Safronoff on Tuesday August 2, 2016, at 7:00PM to promote Safronoff’s award-winning historical biography Crossing Swords: Mary Baker Eddy vs. Victoria Claflin Woodhull and the Battle for the Soul of Marriage. You are invited! Click here for an event flier in PDF format.…
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St. Louis Central Library adds Crossing Swords to Special Collections
The downtown St. Louis Central Library, the primary location of one of the top urban library systems in the United States, has recently added to its collection Crossing Swords: Mary Baker Eddy vs. Victoria Claflin Woodhull and the Battle for the Soul of Marriage by Cindy Safronoff. The book is now included in the searchable on-line St.…
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The fall that led to the rise of Mary Baker Eddy
Sesquicentennial of a monumental event in Lynn, MA At the corner of Oxford and Market streets in Lynn, Massachusetts, a monument commemorates an event that happened at that very spot 150 years ago. On the evening of February 1, 1866, Mary Baker Eddy took such a bad fall on the ice that it knocked her unconscious from…
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A full house at University Book Store reading event for Crossing Swords
About forty people attended Cindy Safronoff’s reading and signing event at University Book Store on Sunday afternoon, January 17, for Crossing Swords: Mary Baker Eddy vs. Victoria Claflin Woodhull and the Battle for the Soul of Marriage. In addition to people from the University of Washington and residents from the University District neighborhood of Seattle, people…