"Manhattan: Central Park - The Majestic Apartments" (New York Public Library Digital Collections) When my mother was a student a...

  Cartoon by H. T. Webster, 1948 New York Herald Tribune https://www.throughthehourglass.com/2022/01/banning-books.html?m=1

Business card of Carlisle Kawbawgam   In 1912 the Red Caruso burst on the scene, drawing admiration and sneers from both sides of the Atlant...

On the shore of the lake, this boathouse emerged from the fog.   https://www.throughthehourglass.com/2022/01/new-years-fog.html?m=1    

  The chair pictured in 1891. The Turkey-work chair sat in the parlor of a house that overlooked the Connecticut River. In the winter when t...

  If you were searching for something to read in colonial America, you might have picked up Gulliver’s Travels , Poor Richard’s Almanack or...

John P. Marquand by Gardner Cox, 1955 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Gift of Phyllis B. Cox Sometimes when my sons were ...