More train poetry, spawned by the parade of deteriorating industrial buildings which may be viewed by Amtrak and NJ Transit passengers along the Northeast Corridor. Decay And if I think of flaking steel Red brown and sparkling driving into the … Continue reading
I found this gem while flipping through Meta Given’s Modern Encyclopedia of Cooking. Originally written in 1947, my copy is from 1959. Beverage recipes containing alcohol are noticeably absent from Given’s cookbook, with menus noting that meals should be … Continue reading
I haven’t been to Los Angeles in over ten years, but I recently saw slides of Urban Light, a work by Chris Burden, during a lecture by Michael Govan, Director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Urban Light assembles … Continue reading
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Scads of photographs accompanied Mrs. G. and I on our return from our Lincoln Highway trip. Showing them to her husband, Mr. G’s comment was that the pictures were all of signs. It’s true, old neon and painted signs hanging … Continue reading
Go now, and visit the list at the Books That Shaped America project at The Library of Congress. The exhibition opens June 25 on the 2nd floor of the Jefferson building. The list celebrates books by Americans that have shaped the … Continue reading
I wasn’t sure what to feel about Steelyard Commons. It’s a rather run-of-the mill (pun, ha) shopping center created on lands once occupied by a Cleveland steel mill in 2007. Other steel mills are located nearby. It’s identifying characteristic is … Continue reading
I was looking for some family members using the American Antiquarian Society’s America’s Historical Newspapers database, and found this advertisement for Rock Run Beer. Lower Ferry was located between Havre de Grace and Perryville, Maryland. Rock Run beer was likely … Continue reading
While I started the Runaway Clothing Database to study dress of the working class as listed in newspaper runaway advertisements, there are so many tangents to the project. The project seeks to catalog in a database runaway indentured and enslaved … Continue reading
I was compiling a list of objects with a Maryland theme from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection for the fun of it. My mother’s family has been rooted along the lower Susquehanna and Chesapeake Bay for nearly 400 years. … Continue reading
If you were stunned to find out that the CEO of Anthropologie and Urban Outfitters donated to Rick Santorum’s campaign, you might be on the fence about deciding whether to boycott. (Read “Clothes Make the Man” from the Philadelphia Weekly) … Continue reading