The Imperial War Museum in London has just opened Lee Miller: A Woman’s War which will run through April 24, 2016. The sterling reviews suggest it’s a show worth traveling…
I’ve just posted a gallery of pictures taken of English Country Dancers taken last weekend. Enjoy! *** Years ago, one May Day morning, I walked past Holyoke Center on my…
A year ago, on Oct. 16, 2013, Brian Sweetland died when he fell as he walked his dogs. A wonderful exhibit at the Southern Vermont Art Center in Manchester…
Driving US Route 7 down the central Valley of Vermont, past the steeply rising road to Ripton, I think of Robert Frost when I see the tired monuments…
Junkanoo can’t really be explained. Junkanoo can only be experienced, whether in the ten-hour parades marking Boxing Day and New Years in the Bahamas or in the casual…
When the Church declares a person – always dead – to be a saint, s/he’s canonised. The books of the Bible the Church long ago established as scripture…
An eagle stealing a toddler? ‘No way’ was my reaction to N.C. Wyeth’s illustration ‘“Just as the baby’s feet cleared the ground Padfoot leaped into the air…
In ‘Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offences’ (1895), Mark Twain did in the literary reputation of the author of Last of the Mohicans (1826): [The rules of literature] require that…
For many who read – or had read to them – the N.C. Wyeth illustrated editions of Robert Louis Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper and the like, the pictures…
When his dog, General, got run over, in April, Grant Bercik thought about fitting memorials. He decided to build cairns – humankind’s oldest form of memorial – in the…