President Coolidge accepts Hayley Lever's painting of the presidential yacht, Mayflower (1924) (Smithsonian Archives of American Art) ...

Vintage tin of Educator Crackers So many odd advertisements appear in the pages of old magazines, quaint and strange to our twenty-fir...

Conservancy Garden, Central Park Photo by Claudia Keenan https://www.throughthehourglass.com/2018/03/snowy-day.html?m=1

Downtown Mt. Vernon, 1920s (Westchester County Historical Society) During the winter of 1974, I was stricken with some sort of respira...

Acupuncture or bail? My acupuncturist is located on Baxter Street in Chinatown, his office wedged between storefronts that are occupied ...

One of many tours created by Frank Bergen Kelley Frank Bergen Kelley’s mother descended from Dutch burghers.   They peered from the fr...

Snowy day at the Metropolitan Museum of Art The day before my father died last March, I moved in close to his right ear and asked h...