Evenings by the Fire
I am chasing two things at once these days: late 18th century high-style table settings, and late 18th century life after dark. They’re related topics, bu...
Category: History
Light, or Lack of It
On Saturday evening, we drove up to Old Sturbridge Village for their “Evening of Illumination” tour. The village is by no means as fancy as the hous...
The Once-Forgotten Memorial
In the 1990s, when I worked in St. Louis, the Soldiers’ Memorial, central to the Downtown Memorial Plaza, felt more forgotten than anything else. Several wars l...
Universal Suffrage
“How can you vote if the fashions are wide and the voting booths are narrow?” The 19th Amendment (6/4/1919) gave American women the right to vote, a...
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