Monday, December 24, 2012
Countdown to Christmas 2012: Year-End Round-Up
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( from The Book of Days ) So this Christmas countdown degenerated into a pair of advent book-ends. But hey, as Scrooge teaches us, it...
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Countdown to Christmas 2012: The Almanack of the Month
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" Holding out their little hands, with their hearts in them, to receive something! " Happy December. Consider this the beginni...
Thursday, November 22, 2012
A Thanksgiving Triptych
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"More Turkey", from "Thanksgiving in the Country", Scribner's , December 1871 In a different world this would ...
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Countdown to Halloween: Gathering in the Pumpkins
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(From the Library of Congress, c.1904) Gathering in the pumpkins at the end of this Countdown to Halloween .
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Countdown to Halloween: A Gilded Age Halloween Extravaganza
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We've reached the penultimate post in this Halloween Countdown - and we've hit a rich vein of Gilded Age spookiness.
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