By Sandy Dale It’s pouring rain here in Florence today. Overcast and gray. Perhaps we should be building an ark. It started raining at 3:30 on Sunday afternoon and has been raining off and on ever since. (It is now Tuesday afternoon.) I know the exact time because our fabulous Merchants’ Car Show ended at 3:00 on Sunday, then the […]
By Robert Reed It might be difficult to determine the fairest armchair of all in historical America. There were many styles with many origins. According to one expert writing many decades ago it could have been the Windsor armchair. Initially such chairs, with and without arms, were made in small villages in a certain region of England. However the American […]
June 10 John Adams proposes Continental Army (1775 June 14 Congress establishes U.S. Army (1775) and Flag Day June 17 Battle of Bunker Hill begins (1775) June 20 Congress adopts The Great Seal of the U.S. (1782)
By Robert Reed Collectors today can take that dreamed-of trip, or they can seek out a treasured travel poster of the past. Either way they are sure to have something to long remember. From air travel to railways, and from bicycles to ocean liners, travel posters have lured people to find some means to roam distant locations. Generally, for all […]
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