GOOD MORNING, UPPER VALLEY!
And welcome back to CoffeeBreak. This is the stand-in for Daybreak until Aug. 23—just a playful little diversion until the grownup version returns. Bear takes in sunrise from Bretton Woods hotel veranda. You probably remember this, but it's still one of my favorites and it's been, oh, days since the last bear item. A hotel worker finishing up his overnight shift at the grand hotel wanted to go see the sunrise, and spotted a young black bear coming up the stairs. Looking for all the world like a guest, it propped its forelegs on the back veranda railing, which overlooks Mt. Washington, and the worker got the pic. Which, understandably, went viral.Here's something I'll bet you haven't seen before... Oddly, brutalism—the '50s-'70s architectural ode to institutional monoliths made of concrete and steel—is having a moment again. Fine, fine. So are baggy jeans. It'll pass. But before it does, Italian animator Pasquale D'Amico—who's a fan of the style—decided to have some fun with notable brutalist buildings. So here's "Brutalism (Animated)".
Meanwhile, here's a quick way to go far away for a few minutes: Sona Jobarteh is the first female Kora virtuoso from a West African Griot family (from the Gambia, though she was born in London). Traditionally, instruction in Kora (the 21-string African lute) was restricted to men, but fortunately for the world, first her brother and then her father ignored tradition.
along with Nigerian-born jazz guitarist Femi Temowo and Ghanaian percussionist Robert Fordjour.
Daybreak Where You Are: The Album. Photos of daybreak and sunsets around the Upper Valley, Vermont, New Hampshire, and the US, sent in by readers.
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