My Visit to Wolf Myrow or Thank You Nehemiah
Elwood: It’s a hundred and six miles to Chicago, we’ve got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses. Jake: Hit it. […]
Category Archives: history
Ten Years On
A couple of years ago my husband and I visited friends in Montclair New Jersey. On a Saturday they took us to see the September 11 Memorial at Eagle Rock […]
Happy New Year from Philadelphia
For more than one hundred years, the City of Philadelphia has sponsored the Mummers Parade on New Years day. I thought it would be fun to do some research […]
Eulogy: Memories of a Life
Rosemary Montgomery, the sixth of John and Emma Montgomery’s eight children, entered life on October 2, 1920. She was born into a world where cars were referred to “machines,” most people didn’t […]
Memorial
My father graduated from high school in the middle of the Depression. When war seemed likely, he enlisted and was finally assigned to Diss England as a member of the […]
Fifty Years of Public Art in Philadelphia
Philadelphia is celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of its Public Art Program this year! It had one the first “percent for art” public art program in the United States when it […]
My Blue Heart
My husband had an extremely difficult 2008- so bad his heart was broken and he finished the year undergoing open heart surgery. He’s getting better, regaining his strength and looking […]
Beading From Budapest
I bought these necklaces and lariats in Budapest. I had never seen netting around beads, tubular netting, or so many variations on flat netting. I wanted to try some of […]
Goddess!
How are people inspired by history, landscape, myth and memory? On a cold night in November, some lucky people got to peek into the mind of fashion designer Mary McFadden […]
Isaiah Zagar’s Walls
One of the things I love about Philadelphia are its tiny streets and lanes located off the main avenues. These thoroughfares date from long ago when servant’s quarters and horse […]
