By Lucy Lazarony Stop by Cloud House Pottery in Artists Alley in Delray Beach and you’ll find Ian Levinson and his mother Ellen “Starr” Levinson creating pots and paintings and sculptures. Ian, 46, has been a ceramic artist for 32 years. On his potter’s wheel, he creates functional pieces such as bowls, cups and mugs and one-of-a-kind art pieces. In her studio, Ellen paints … [Read more...]
Until the end, mother, son bonded over books
Mary Anne Schwalbe and her son Will shared a longtime passion for books. She had been a dean at Harvard and Radcliffe and he was editor-in-chief of a major New York book publisher. When Mary Anne was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2007, the two decided to read books together in what he later dubbed “The End of Your Life Book Club.” Will Schwalbe describes his growing … [Read more...]
Tale of cell line’s ‘mother’ astonishes
Before the publication of this book, few people other than scientists had ever heard of Henrietta Lacks, a poor black woman who died of cancer in 1951. Lacks was a patient at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore when doctors, without her knowledge or consent, sliced cancerous tissue from her cervix for research purposes. To the astonishment of scientists, the cancer cells began … [Read more...]