Loved and loathed, flowers and colors named for them, parodied on Saturday Night Live skits and Halloween masks, First Ladies are woven into the fabric of American Pop Culture. And, First Ladies have had songs written about them, being set… Read More ›
Archive for March 2012
What Were Those Leprechauns Thinking?
Whether or not flesh-and-blood Leprechauns really do exist in the woodlands of Ireland, they have cropped up in ceramic forms, populating gift shops in the United States ever since the 1960s, when St. Patrick’s Day started to become an annual… Read More ›
The First Lady a Nation Never Knew: Pat Nixon in Private Taped Phone Calls & 100 Pictures on Her Centennial
This weekend marks the centennial of First Lady Pat Nixon, whose story is as fascinating as it is largely unknown offering a dramatic example of triumph over struggle that genuinely exemplified the idealized “American Dream.” It is told here through… Read More ›
Marion Berry: Not the DC Mayor, the Oregon Pie
Washington, D.C.’s imprisoned and re-elected mayor (1979-1991; 1995-1999) is Marion Barry. Oregon’s longish, glossy, purple fruit is the Marion Berry. And that makes Marionberry Pie the unofficial though unchallenged State Pie of Oregon. Found in profusion along Willamette Valley vines each… Read More ›
The Greatest Forgotten Celebrity: What Did Admiral Dewey Do?
Everyone knows Adele. Nobody knows Dewey. At one time, everyone was daffy for Dewey or, as he was hailed and feted and revered and honored and celebrated and beloved and sold,, Admiral Dewey! Before he became the world’s most famous celebrity… Read More ›
Drinking & Smoking With the Presidents
Every four years, there’s not only a race for either Presidents to hang onto the White House – or Presidential candidates to seize the keys from them, and move in. A parallel race is also run, however, by manufacturers and… Read More ›
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