Christmas in Antebellum Virginia: Part I

November 30, 2009

What is now the state of Virginia boasted the first permanent English settlement in North America. Despite its rocky beginnings …

Idylls of Cuisine, #40

November 29, 2009

[A picture, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]

November 27, 2009

Black Friday marks the first “official” day of Christmas, er, shopping, that is. (You know it’s almost Christmas when the …

November 26, 2009

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL! For more vintage Thanksgiving postcards, see my post about them from last year: Vintage Thanksgiving Postcards.

November 25, 2009

He turns the spit who never tasted a morsel from it. Proverbes en Rimes, no. 117. Continuing our salute to …