She didn’t need to wait for the movie. She didn’t even need to first read about it in the book. Long years before the general public was to learn of the clandestine romance between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his… Read More ›
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Mae West New Year’s Eve, Partying Like It’s 1899
Many people recall their childhood as idyllic. Forty years after the fact, however, Mae West, got to publicly relive her own Gay Nineties childhood, recreating it on a grandly romanticized scale and sharing it with generations to come. She only… Read More ›
Which State Started Memorial Day? An Archives Article
Granted, for most Americans the three-day Mem0rial Day Weekend marks the beginning of yet another halcyon season of summertime, the chance to clean off and fire up the grill for the first time this year or hit the beach… Read More ›
Peace of Green: Woodstock, New York
Most people hold in their mind the particulars of certain places where they’ve experienced that intuitive sense of not merely of belonging there but feeling entirely integrated into the environment about it. Its those places where one has a sense… Read More ›
The first First Lady’s first Day
It only takes 45 minutes to take the shuttle to New York from Washington’s Reagan National Airport, located in Virginia on the Potomac River, but it took eleven days for Martha Washington to make the same distance of a trip… Read More ›
New York’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade: An Important Early Image
New York’s famous St. Patrick’s Day Parade is perhaps one of the oldest traditions celebrating an aspect of American diversity, an annual event which dates back to 1762. By eighty years later, with the first wave of massive immigration of… Read More ›
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