Author Archives
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Betty Draper, Brach’s Easter Candy & Sugar Daddy
Review the colorful caricatures lining the Twentieth Century Hall in the Pantheon of American Archetypes and its fairly easy to still recognize them by sight. There’s the Humorless Suffragette, Gibson Girl, Flapper, Rosie the Riveter, Hippy Chick, Liberated Feminist, Boxy-Suited… Read More ›
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Top Ten Weird Easter Candies
Among the deliciously rich history of Easter Candy in the American Popular Culture, the Chocolate Bunny, Jellybeans and Marshmallow still reign as the standard-bearers, as defining of the Easter Basket as the basket itself. Jellybeans had been around since the… Read More ›
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Terrifying Images on the Easter Bunny’s Lap: He’s No Santa Claus
In the last half-century, there are few challenges which the ingenuity of mankind has not yet met. We’re still waiting on the Jetpack, so we can fly in the sky to avoid traffic on the ground. What about a home… Read More ›
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The Father of the Jellybean’s 1912 Black Peep Scandal: A Bittersweet Gem from the Archives
They are ubiquitous at this time of year, produced at a rate of over five and half million a day, a billion and a half being consumed, selling at a rate of 57 times more than an iPhone. Yes, the… Read More ›
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First Ladies You Mightn’t Know Were Irish, from Jackie Kennedy to Dolley Madison
Everyone is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, so the saying goes. The leaves of presidential family trees certainly prove this, especially when the definition is widened to include those popularly known as “Scotch-Irish,” a general term which usually (but not… Read More ›
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First Ladies, Headscarves & History: A Photo Gallery
Simply put, it is much ado about nothing, which makes it a lot about something else. With all the global media attention focused on the fact that Michelle Obama did not wear a traditional Muslim head scarf to the funeral… Read More ›
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Inauguration, Swinging Sixties Style: LBJ’s Big Day, 1965
It was fifty years ago today, at three minutes after noon that the incumbent U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn-in for his own full term, elected in his own right as President in the 1964 election. As Vice President,… Read More ›
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