During the past year, I’ve returned to creating collages from cardboard and magazines, an art first learned in a class at the Rhod...

West Genesee Street, Syracuse, 1900 Jane looks out steadily, as if you hadn’t just surprised her by opening the case. She’s trapped ...

North End Bridge over the Connecticut River, seen from West Springfield, 1900 Jessie already seemed wise beyond her years by the tim...

My friend Andrew Patner died one year ago today at the impossibly young age of 55. He was a pitch-perfect cultural critic and fine wr...

First page of Mary Katherine Reely's first published play Born in 1881 in the hamlet of Spring Green, Wisconsin, Kate Reely neve...

Mount Vernon, N.Y., 1910 After her father’s death, Nellie’s life meandered along. There she is, in the social pages of the Mount Verno...

Nellie Hickey stands at right outside Chicago's Medinah Temple, 1915; image is backwards  (Chicago Historical Society) Mount Ver...