Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in Health & Medicine, history, and Personal items
The auction-house staffer was nonchalant, but we two auction-goers were astounded. I had seen them first: sets of false teeth with pink gums attached to heavy metal plates in a glass case with other items.…
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I never made it to the excavation of the spot on Independence Mall in Philadelphia a couple years ago where the first president had a home back in the 18th century. As a newspaper online editor…
We’ve all collected recipes. We’ve clipped them from magazines and newspapers, jotted them down from the memory of a family member or printed them from the web. At auction some months ago, I bought a…
I was watching the 1942 movie “George Washington Slept Here” with Jack Benny and Ann Sheridan on TCM a couple nights ago. It was a delightful movie, and Jack Benny was his usual deceptively funny…
