The old-timers never forgot the winter of 1917.  At night the rivers froze like Colonial times, and during the day the frosty air hel...

Ready to charge across the Hudson River, an equestrian statue of Joan of Arc overlooks Riverside Park on the west side of Manhattan.  I...

Postcard of the Wartburg Orphanage, around 1914 A few weeks ago I read a crushing article, “The Lost Children of Tuam,” in the New Yo...

My mother (left) poses with a friend on Sherman Avenue, Inwood, Manhattan, mid-1930s. My mother is living in a corner of her chil...

Frank Munsey When the publisher Frank Munsey died in 1925, Americans took notice. Rather than grieving, however, most speculated abo...

  Looking southwest over the Central Park Reservoir   Photo by Claudia Keenan https://www.throughthehourglass.com/2017/09/september-su...

  Helen Ridder, around 1940 (Screen shot of newspaper photograph) Just a party girl, said her stepson’s third wife.  Ply Helen with a...