Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in Art
I spent an afternoon this week in Norman Rockwell’s America. I wasn’t at an auction, but inside an exhibit of his Saturday Evening Post magazine covers and some 3-D life-size sculptures of scenes from them.…
Ebony makes greeting cards? That was my first reaction when I spotted them while walking past the card section of a local Target a few weeks ago. They must be new, I surmised, because I…
Posted in Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and Home
This week, I decided to check a few of the old magazines I had picked up at auction to see if any were published around the Thanksgiving holidays. I wanted to see what articles, photos…
Posted in Home
As a child, I remember my grandmother boiling her clothes clean in a large black round pot, with a blazing fire of wood underneath. I’m not sure what sudsy soap she used, but her whites would sparkle…
I had never heard of Ellen Pyle until a few months ago, after learning that the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington was exhibiting some of her original illustrations for the Saturday Evening Post. For me, the…
Posted in Art
I had never heard of a cartoonist named Bo Brown. But when I came across some of his original pen drawings among some papers I picked up at one of my auctions, I knew I…
