Earl Starrett Goudey, 1937 I always hoped to circle back to Earl Starrett Goudey, born in North Adams, Mass. in 1895, a man who took a circu...

The shape of things to come: more scandals for the White family   I couldn’t understand why John Jay White, Jr. and his wife Grace, glitteri...

There will be a big story for you some day – maybe in a month, maybe in a year. But when it comes it will be a first-page story with big...

Last year in New York City. I still wonder why I was unable to capture both beams. Another mystery of light and the night sky. ...

Louise White Suydam Noble (1885-1912) Sweet seventeen and manly nineteen – that was the verdict of fashionable society when Louise W...

The "Spider Web" chart, created by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, defamed Progressive-era women activists (1923-4).         ...

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...