Maybe once you hit a certain age, it is normal to become nostalgic. We look to the past, longingly remembering those simpler times, when no one worried about the safety of a five-year-old girl and her seven-year-old brother walking to the corner drugstore to spend their nickel allowance on a candy bar. Those kids grew … Continue reading Out of Time; Out of Place: Nostalgia, Time Travel, and Ernest Haslehust’s Enchanted England
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The St. Leger Stakes: A Historic Race Rooted in Yorkshire and Nobility
Today, on the 249th anniversary of its debut, the St. Leger Stakes is the oldest horse race in the prestigious British Triple Crown, a series for three-year-old Thoroughbred colts and fillies, that is considered the pinnacle of British flat racing. (The other races making up the Triple Crown are the 2,000 Guineas Stakes at Newmarket … Continue reading The St. Leger Stakes: A Historic Race Rooted in Yorkshire and Nobility
Lessons from Proust: Love and Deception
“Don’t stop. Keep moving. There’s nothing to see here.” You look away and continue about your business. But who are you kidding? If there was nothing to see, why did you drop your gaze? Genre artist Berthold Woltze (1829-1896), who was born on August 24, 1829, in Havelberg, Kingdom of Prussia, often portrayed scenes that … Continue reading Lessons from Proust: Love and Deception
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