This eight-day, wintertime “festival of lights,” celebration includes a nightly menorah lighting, special prayers and fried foods.    The Hebrew word Chanukah means “dedication,” and is thus named because it celebrates the rededication of the Holy Temple. Also spelled Hanukkah (or variations of that spelling), the Hebrew word is actually pronounced with a guttural, “kh” sound, kha-nu-kah, not tcha-new-kah.    The foods […]

   The Daughters of the American Revolution have an opportunity to secure a rare piece of American history. The organization is hoping that the Giving Tuesday campaign will help them in their effort to purchase the quilt for their museum.    This rare 18th-century American Sampler was made by a little girl born in the midst of America’s fight for Independence. One […]

By Jon DeStefano    When you walk through the doors of Old Warehouse Antiques you can’t help but say, ‘This is a shop with ‘real antiques.’ It’s getting harder to find good antiques, but you will find them here and a lot of them.    In 1994 Mary Eastman opened Old Warehouse Antiques, a literal landmark in Sterling, Colorado. The Warehouse was […]

   Thanksgiving Day is an annual national holiday in the United States and Canada celebrating the harvest and other blessings of the past year. In the U.S., Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November while in Canada nearly one month and a half earlier (second Monday of October). Thanksgiving has deep roots in religious tradition, but today it is […]