You may have noticed that there’s a lot of blue in my website’s new look. Out of the various options that website developer Laird Sapir and I considered, the blue wallpaper looked absolutely right to me. At the time I didn’t think about why that might be; I just went with my instincts. Then I ran across(…)
Call me strange, but I love to do research. It’s like a scavenger hunt: one source leads you to another, which leads you to…a dead end. Then you have to pick a different trail to follow. Like you other researching folks out there, I have a ton of bookmarks and tags, but only directly(…)
Welcome to Flashback Friday. Today and next Friday will focus on snippets of late-19th/early-20th century Thanksgivings, through the eyes of reporters from The New York Times. Enjoy! Even back then, it was all about the turkey: …although Thanksgiving was about generosity, too: Click here for the entire November 26, 1908 article. College football was another(…)