The much anticipated 14th edition of Cabinet of Curiosities is splendidly hosted at Damn Data, and under their excellent stewardship offers a veritable goblin market of goodies this month with a decidedly fey allure. Step into the faerie ring, and......

Cabinet of Curiosities #14 will be hosted this month by the good folks at Damn Data / Cabinet of Wonders on February 16th. They have a brilliant Compendium of Curiosities of their own that has often provided choice bits for......

A major conservation donor of my acquaintance now describes his world as being on fire. It is hard for him, at the epicenter of this great economic upheaval, to imagine how those of us on the periphery of the Wall......

The country went to hell in a hand basket when Abraham Lincoln was President-elect. A veteran politician whose career included service in both houses of Congress, Ambassador to Russia, and Secretary of State in the Polk Administration (having first declined......

If Jesus can appear in the tinted glass of a hardware store, why not the name of Allah in boiled beef? "Diners have been flocking to a restaurant in northern Nigeria to see pieces of meat which the owner says......

I re-watched Jaws yesterday, and once again was struck by the brilliance of Robert Shaw's delivery of Captain Quint's Indianapolis Soliloquy.  "Eleven hundred men went into the water..." It is a defining moment, made even more remarkable for its human interest in a film whose star is ...

The Hessian and Anspach Jaegers in Knyphausen's invasion force were elite troops.  With their short barreled rifles and green jackets faced with red, Jaeger detachments fought as skirmishers and assault troops throughout the war from Long Island to Yorktown.  There were nearly 300 of them ...

"what if a much of a which of a wind gives the truth to summer's lie;bloodies with dizzying leaves the sunand yanks immortal stars awry?Blow king to beggar and queen to seem(blow friend to fiend: blow space to time)-when skies are hanged and oceans drowned,the single secret will still be man&qu...

This past weekend, our vast and extended families and lifelong friends gathered at Windrock on the shores of Buzzards Bay to honor the memory of my grandmother and reaffirm our devotion to each other.  Someone may have an accurate count, for we managed to feed a legion at least with food to spa...

There are so many memories of the French and Indian War Grand Encampment at Fort Ticonderoga last weekend, and great images to go with many of them.  This mixed file and drum corps includes both French and British musicians and came down the road to welcome us on our arrival.  Musicians ha...