Big catch: J.H. Jordan, fishing in Maine (probably 1920s)  It’s July of 1910 and Joshua Hawkins Jordan is about to close his shop on Wes...

View from "Dellwood," the Bigelow family's lake house on Manitou Island, Minnesota Like most researchers, I often stumble ...

Commentary by Bill Mauldin appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times  on November 23, 1963, one day after the assassination of President Kennedy. ...

Endpapers of Parlez-vous Francais? A First Book in French There’s a book that my mother has kept since the summer of 1940 when she rece...

Illustration from a New York Times story about Princess Zizianoff, April 1921 Once there was a Russian princess who wanted to live in...

Century-old vines in the Wisteria Pergola, Central Park, 2017 Photo by Claudia https://www.throughthehourglass.com/2020/04/i...

Cover of James L. Ford's Forty-Odd Years in the Literary Shop (third edition, 1896) A few weeks ago when I wrote about the journali...