Playing With Matches
I really enjoyed Collectors Weekly’s round-up of “feature matches” from the 1930s and ’40s. It’s one thing to produce a clever ad, but to make the very matches look like tiny chefs or a bottle of beer...
View ArticleA History of the Rockefeller Christmas Tree
On Christmas Eve 1931, with the nation mired in the Great Depression, a group of construction workers erected a 20-ft. tree on the muddy site of what would become one of the city’s greatest...
View ArticleGrayson Perry’s “Map to Nowhere”
I’m finally reading Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, and I can’t put it down; when it comes to history, I’ve become a developed a bit of a royal obsession, and Henry VIII is one of the most fascinating....
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