Posts Categorized: 19th century
Now that’s a blog post title I never imagined writing! I’d been researching this last installment of the “Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving” series (the subject today is 19th century Thanksgiving food) for y’all when I ran across this: Once I got past the “Master of Hypnotism” ad…ooh, those spooky eyes…the term “Kalamazoo celery” just jumped right out…
We’re another week closer to Thanksgiving! Time for more historical Turkey-Talk. Last week we looked at the surprisingly old-fashioned Thanksgiving tradition of merchandisers peddling anything and everything to the American consumer via sales and giveaways. Click here to check out that post. Today we’re looking at another “old-fashioned” Thanksgiving tradition: football! Yep, even way back in the…
Halloween is almost upon us, so it’s time for part 2 of Trick or Treating, 19th century style. To read about the Halloween “tricks” pulled in the 19th century, click here for last week’s post. Today, it’s all about the treats! What kind of fun did Victorians have at Halloween? The Entertainment: The Victorians bobbed for apples, carved pumpkins,…
Happy Autumn, everyone! I’ve been remiss in posting lately, so here we are in another season already. But with Halloween coming up – one of my favorite holidays – I couldn’t let the blogging fun pass me by. You know how much I love historical pop culture, so this will be in two parts. Today,…
Today I’m responding to Piper Bayard’s Firelands Reader/Blogger Challenge (which celebrates the debut of her post-apocalyptic novel Firelands -more on that below), because I can’t resist an opportunity to win a can of Tactical Bacon. Of course, Piper’s Survival Kit includes a lot of other handy tools for surviving The End of the World, but it…
Kassandra Lamb is a retired psychotherapist and psychology professor who now writes mysteries. I’m honored to have this fab gal as my guest here today! She’s celebrating the release of her 5th novel by doing a “Tour of Fives” around the blogosphere. So today she brings us… Five Reasons I Have Come…
Ah, June – the perfect month for weddings: a profusion of blooms and warm weather, and not yet as hot or as insect-ridden as the rest of the summer. I’ve had weddings on my mind a lot lately: not only will I be attending two this summer, but I’ve been researching Progressive Era weddings for…
Gertrude Atherton – Shocking Victorian California by Kirsten Weiss The Californians, published in 1898, was my first introduction to Gertrude Atherton. The novel is creepy. The novel is gothic. And the novel was scandalous when first published. Gertrude wrote from life. Gertrude was born on October 30, 1857, in San Francisco. Childhood finances were sketchy…
