The editor of a college newspaper, captured for the school's 1895 yearbook. Happened to catch my eye. https://www.throughthehourglass...

Ambitious and imaginative, J. J. Goldman filed a patent for a button-detachment device in 1893. At the turn of the twentieth century...

Caught in a side view mirror When my family moved to Kansas in 2000, the prospect of adjusting to a new community brought great trep...

Be firm, rail over the river, to support those who lean idly, yet haste with the hasting current;  Fly on, sea-birds! fly sidew...

In 1922, the poet James Rorty published “What Michael Said to the Census-Taker .”  The poem is not well-known; just 150 pretty co...

Ballroom at the Hotel Fort Des Moines in Des Moines, Iowa, site of the 1921 convention of the National Education Association   Sum...

    Photos by Claudia Keenan https://www.throughthehourglass.com/2019/07/three-views-from-52nd-floor.html?m=1