2019 Year in Review

  Highlights:

• February 14 Taj Mahal Trio at the Music Hall

• February 24 - March 6 Oceania Cruise Miami to Miami 

Miami to Miami 

Miami to Great Stirup Cay; San Juan; St. John's 
Antigua; Castries, St. Lucia; Phillipsburg and 
Marigot, St. Maarten; and Gustavia, St. Barts

    

                              Oceania Riviera

• March 19 Celebrated our anniversary and my birthday at the AAA Four Diamond Abingdon  Manor in Latta, SC

• April 16 celebrated Doris' birthday at Grill 225

April 29 -   Road Scholar trip to South Dakota, Badlands, Wyoming, Yellowstone and Grand Tetons

                                                     

 

Snake River Grand Tetons

Mt. Rushmore

  

                                                                Yellowstone Old Faithful

  

• May 14-16 Visited Patrick and Jayden in their new house in Catlett, VA

• May 24 Spoleto Festival Esperanza Spaulding Concert at the Cistern

• May 27 Spoleto performance "Path of Miracles" at the Gaillard.  Vocal chamber group performance of the four main  posts of the Camino de Santiago.

• May 29 Saxophonist Mark Sterbank at Dockery's

• June 16 Father's Day at Edmunds Oast 

• July 2 Riverdogs game 

• July 13-23 Boston 

• September 5 Hurricane Dorian Category 5.  The worst natural disaster in the history of the Bahamas.

• September 28 "Dancin at the Dock"

• November 5 Yorktown Volunteer Dinner With Bill and Dee Caiazza 

• November 17 Black Jacket Symphony Fleetwood Mac - Rumors at the Music Hall

• December 8 Wine Under the Oaks at Boone Hall Plantation

U.S. Events:

World Events:

Movies:

Best Picture was "Green Book".  Best actor went to Rami Malek in "Bohemian Rhapsody".  Best Actress was Olivia Coleman  "The Favorite".  Best supporting actor was Mahershala Ali in "Green Book".  Best supporting actress was Regina King "If Beale Street Could Talk".  Best Director was Alfonso Cuaron for "Roma". 

Super Bowl:  

Super Bowl 53: The Patriots defeated the Rams 13–3. The game was played on February 3, 2019, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. 

The Patriots' victory was their sixth, tying the Steelers for the most Super Bowl championships. New England, after finishing the regular season with an 11–5 record, advanced to their 11th Super Bowl appearance, their third in a row, and their ninth under the leadership of head coach Bill Belechick and Tom Brady.  The Rams finished the regular season with a 13–3 record under head coach Sean McVay the youngest head coach in the Super Bowl at 33, as they advanced to their fourth Super Bowl appearance and their first since relocating back from St. Louis to LA to LA in 2016. Super Bowl LIII was a rematch of 2001's Super Bowl 36 the first championship won by Belichick and Brady and the beginning of the Patriots dynasty.  Super Bowl 53 was the lowest-scoring Super Bowl in NFL history.  The game marked the first Super Bowl in which neither team had a touchdown through the first three quarters, as the Patriots and the Rams fought to a 3–3 tie entering the fourth. In the final quarter, New England scored 10 unanswered points to claim victory, including the game's only touchdown by running back Sony Michel.

World Series: 

The 2019 World Series was between the Houston Astros and the Washington Nationals.  The Naionals won the series, four games to three, to secure their first title in franchise history. It was the third World Series in which home-field advantage was decided by the regular-season records of the American and National league champions, a practice that started in the 2017 season. It was the first time the visiting team won all the games of a seven-game championship series surpassing the previous high of five.  The road team outscored the home team 49-14 in the seven games played. Washington won despite scoring only three runs at home. It was the sixth straight World Series in which the championship was clinched by the visiting team.  Washington pitcher Stephen Strasburg was named the World Series Most Valuable Player (MVP) after earning two wins in the series