Barbara Handler writes,

"I was honored to be asked to have a one-person show at Kol Ami synagogue in Elkins Park. At the opening on February 28, I was fortunate enough to sell six paintings, but the buyers couldn't get their paintings until the closing on April 4, two days before my scheduled knee surgery on the 6th. The surgery was canceled and the synagogue was closed down. Thankfully, I convinced the synagogue secretary to go in five weeks later to open the gallery door and let me run in to grab the sold pieces, one of which ("A Wagon Full of Penguins") was sold to Michael Hollinger as a birthday gift to his wife Megan."