On my computer at least, the jumper is blue. I think it might be a sort of homage to “The Wizard of Oz” (8 PM EST, TCM). In any case, ruby slippers are better than those purple boots!
Back in the Tatulli days, it was established that Heart, Dean and Kat lived on Spruce Street, in Philadelphia’s Old City neighborhood, possibly on Portico Row.Portico Row is just that—a block of 19th century row houses with tiny porches around the entrances. Past residents included Commodore Isaac Hull (of “Old Ironsides” fame), and one of my personal heroines, Sarah Josepha Hale, who, among other things, gave us the Great American Nursery Rhyme, “Mary had a Little Lamb”.Portico Row is still very much occupied. Most of the rowhomes have been divided into apartments, but at least two are the single-family homes they were meant to be. Kat’s family must have gotten an incredible deal…..
Yes, one of the great ironies is that publishing, which was long considered a men’s-only domain, is now woman-dominated.Before the mid-19th century, it was considered scandalous, if not obscene,for a woman to publish under her own name. which is why we have “George Sand”, “Acton Bell”, and many others who published as “A Lady of—whatever.But Sarah Josepha Hale, who wrote, among other things, the Great American Nursery Rhyme (”Mary had a Little Lamb"), insisted that her ant-slavery novel“Northwood” bear her actual name.
On my computer at least, the jumper is blue. I think it might be a sort of homage to “The Wizard of Oz” (8 PM EST, TCM). In any case, ruby slippers are better than those purple boots!