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Holocaust | Connie Hampton Connally
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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. A Holocaust Story from Nine Suitcases: Given the Chance to Escape the Python’s Throat, Would We All Take It? October 13, 2011. And if they weren’t polished off by the Romanians, what would happen to their families in the ghetto? And what happened then? He turned back. He ran back. With great relief he joined the gravediggers being led back to the ghetto to await the cattle cars. In Zsolt’s words, Grosz, pushing his way to the front, slipped ...This is t...
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Music | Connie Hampton Connally
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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Les Mis, Played Out and Lived Out. July 8, 2015. This is the text of my recent. Article about a high school musical production that was not only a joy for the audience but transformative for the school community. In May Stadium High School transported me to nineteenth-century Paris violence, poverty, pathos and all. The school staged an ambitious production of the musical. She knew the task would be huge. With almost all the dialog sung, the show is...
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Faith | Connie Hampton Connally
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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Lessons Along the Camino de Santiago de Compostela. October 21, 2015. The text of my article that appeared in. On Oct. 19, 2015:. Deborah at the Atlantic, the journey’s end point. The shell motif is used on markers along the Camino. Camino lesson #1: Lighten the load, and get along with less. She would usually walk 17-19 miles a day. On a few days, Deborah walked longer and farther, but she paid for it with blisters and exhaustion the next day. ...Along...
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Africa | Connie Hampton Connally
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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Re-examining an American Mindset. February 10, 2015. This essay (minus the photos) was published under a different title in. The News Tribune of Tacoma, February 9, 2015. To see the TNT article, click here. No matter how we complain about medical costs, Americans can plan on a fairly long life. What if we couldn’t? My children live . . ? We Americans don’t realize how much we have, just to be able to assume we will raise our children. Whether or not we ...
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Church | Connie Hampton Connally
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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. A Part of My Heart is in the Mountains of Peru. July 31, 2015. This is the text of an article I wrote for Tacoma’s. Published on July 27, 2015. Brendan, Erin and Oliver sharing a Spanish-language book. Guinea pig), loves his black-haired playmates, and speaks words in Spanish, English and Quechua. He is a Peruvian native. Tearing around town. Quechua women cooking over outdoor fires, or carrying their babies in colorful. Woven blankets) on their backs&#...
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Art | Connie Hampton Connally
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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Merci, Maestro Christophe Chagnard. March 24, 2015. On Monday, March 23, 2015 the Tacoma News Tribune printed an article I wrote about my memories of working with Christophe Chagnard of the Northwest Sinfonietta. I am posting the text of the article below. If you’d like to see the article in the TNT’s online version, click here. And if these people had a vision for sharing music with children, then we were on the same side. As a children’s play. I r...
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Hungary | Connie Hampton Connally
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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Re-examining an American Mindset. February 10, 2015. This essay (minus the photos) was published under a different title in. The News Tribune of Tacoma, February 9, 2015. To see the TNT article, click here. No matter how we complain about medical costs, Americans can plan on a fairly long life. What if we couldn’t? My children live . . ? We Americans don’t realize how much we have, just to be able to assume we will raise our children. Whether or not we ...
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Books | Connie Hampton Connally
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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Merci, Maestro Christophe Chagnard. March 24, 2015. On Monday, March 23, 2015 the Tacoma News Tribune printed an article I wrote about my memories of working with Christophe Chagnard of the Northwest Sinfonietta. I am posting the text of the article below. If you’d like to see the article in the TNT’s online version, click here. And if these people had a vision for sharing music with children, then we were on the same side. As a children’s play. I r...
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Connie Connally | Connie Hampton Connally
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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Author Archives: Connie Connally. We All Want to Be Heard: Some Musings on Writing Rejection Notices. January 22, 2016. The text of my article that appeared in. On January 11, 2016. Every New Year’s, I think back on the previous twelve months. What was important during the year? What did I learn? Our figures are nothing compared to those of larger magazines, however, which may reject thousands of submissions a year. Most publishers communicate the b...
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Family | Connie Hampton Connally
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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. My Sister Gave Gifts She Didn’t Even Know She Was Giving (Nov. 30 article, The News Tribune). December 10, 2015. On an April evening in 2009, my phone rang. It was my brother-in-law in Kennewick, calling about my sister. Susie had an accident, he said, straining to stay calm. She fell off her horse and . . . she can’t move. She’s been airlifted to Spokane. Susie, in her dancing days. My sister died in January of 2011, twenty-one months after her paralys...