Memory Scraps That Matter: Coffee, Peckers, and Bernstein
This isn’t about coffee or penises, but of course that’s what all you dirty-minded people care about. It’s about: stray advice from […]
Decadent Monacracy: White House Secret Service Uniforms During Nixon’s Administration
In 1970, President Richard Nixon changed the White House Secret Service’s uniforms most dramatically. According to Richard Reeves’ President Nixon: Alone in […]
Life and Death of the MidAtlantic Accent
From years of watching old movies I had heard the MidAtlantic accent but I had no idea what it was called. I […]
Err, Jibe, and Implosion: Mr. Trumbly Had It Right
At my high school was a teacher named Richard Trumbly. It didn’t matter if you had him as a teacher or not–you […]
Winston Churchill’s Mother is Hot
Sizzling, steamy hot. Oh sure, by today’s standards, she would probably never make the tabloid pages. But considering the time period and […]
Cutaway of Admiral Byrd’s Antarctic Snow Cruiser, 1939
Click Here For Large (1353 x 1200 Pixels) In an issue of LIFE magazine from October 30, 1939 that I have […]
Cutaway Collection
What has happened to the lost art of cutaway drawings? In this age of fast computers and gaming consoles, we can navigate […]
Gerard Darrow: From Quiz Kid to Broken Man
The Ephemera: A sweet-faced, intelligent 9 year-old boy–Gerard Darrow–who performed on a radio show called Quiz Kids. LIFE says that Darrow “rescued […]
From New Orleans Debutante to Wife of a Marxist, Divorce “Pioneer,” and Reiki Practitioner
The Ephemera Photo – Flickr/Bustbright Fortune, December 1938: About this time every winter in New York, if you happened to pass the […]
Illustration Art Mania
I’m obsessed. It began a few weeks ago when, on an Internet auction, I purchased an original drawing called “Rocket Speedway,” by […]