Some sixty years ago, when I was a little girl in (first) Milwaukee, Wisconsin and then in Edina, Minnesota, on the first of   May we wou...

Daughter Eleni, who studied Folk Lore and Mythology    at Harvard, recently launched her blog “ The Liminal Stage ”. (As she explains: “ Lim...

(The story behind the photo) Collectors of antique photographs take special pride in finding an identified antique portrait, taken befo...

Yesterday was Good Friday and once again we trooped off to pick up our slaughtered Easter Lamb from Bahnan's Market on Pleasant Street i...

(I'm reprinting below a blog post that I originally wrote on November 19,2009.  Last week, when I read about actor Nicolas Cage's ...

Two weeks ago, when I was invited to Mar-a-Lago, the former Trump home, now a super-expensive private club, I couldn’t resist photograp...

(The Story Behind the Photograph) The girl in this faded carte de visite (CDV)   photograph was born in 1847, so she would have been 14 ...