Don’t worry. With Halloween wrapping up, we’re not immediately turning to thoughts about the holiday season. However, before winter is upon us, we want to write about another season that got underway a couple months ago. Typically beginning in the fall, our many music and theater groups embark on their season of concerts and productions. […]
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Last week I really enjoyed a supplement to our weekly newspaper, The Isthmus, called “Summer Times”. It reminded me of all the wonderful things Madison has to offer this time of year. Certainly we have our time-honored events like Concerts on the Square, Opera in the Park, Art Fair on the Square, and Paddle and
Tired of all the news about Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and everything in between this holiday season? If so, we highly recommend you re-vitalize your holiday shopping with Madison’s 18th annual Fair Trade Holiday Festival this Saturday, December 6, 2014, from 9-4, at the Monona Terrace Convention Center on Madison’s famous isthmus, located just a few
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Like many of you, we look back this time of year to reflect upon the events and experiences that filled our lives. Here are some of the special photos that represent the wonderful memories among our family and guests at The Livingston Inn in 2012.
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There are so many things to love about this time of year, whether or not you celebrate any religious holidays. Today is solstice, the shortest day of the year, and it seems pretty clear to me that no matter what your belief system – and even if you don’t have any at all, really –
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At a recent party I attended, I found myself in a fascinating conversation about Christmas traditions and the emotional impact they have on us. An acquaintance told me how, when her mother recently died, the most important things to her and her sisters were their mother’s Christmas ornaments. Some of the ornaments had been in
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How do I love you, Madison? Let me count the ways… Okay, sorry for the dramatic introduction to today’s post, but I wanted to share yet another thing we love about Madison – the arts culture you find in this great city. Since we have three kids, we get to explore what Madison has to
Happy Thanksgiving! In the Furlan household, we love all the holidays. But Thanksgiving is perhaps our favorite. Crammed in between decoration-crazy Halloween and Christmas, Thanksgiving is about family, food and gratitude – three of our favorite things.
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Fifteen years ago, Peggy and I moved to Madison. We came for a variety of reasons that made sense for our family. We left Breckenridge, Colorado — where we had met when we both worked in the hospitality industry there — the first week of November, right between the summer and winter seasons.
Hi friends – Hope you had a fun Halloween. Here at The Livingston Inn we had a number of cute and scary visitors, whom we treated to full-size candy bars. Most of them were very polite and gave us great big thank-yous for our efforts.
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