Knowledge is never wasted except on those too lazy to use it: Augustus Saint Gaudens produced exquisite portrait reliefs throughout his career using skills he learned at age thirteen, as a cameo-cutter. One of Saint Gaudens’s most popular portrait reliefs shows Robert Louis Stevenson, the … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: March 2017
Now available: print versions (in full color) of Alexander Hamilton: A Brief Biography and Alexander Hamilton: A Friend to America, volume 1 and volume 2, which includes all my Hamilton blogs posts. For a 40% discount offer, scroll to the end of this post. Second of … Continue reading
This is Essay 7 from my 2003 book Forgotten Delights: The Producers, A Selection of Manhattan’s Outdoor Sculptures. .. -. …- . -. – — .-. — ..-. — — .-. … . -.-. — -.. . (Inventor of Morse Code) … Continue reading
Now available: print versions (in full color) of Alexander Hamilton: A Brief Biography and Alexander Hamilton: A Friend to America, volume 1 and volume 2, which includes all my Hamilton blogs posts. For a 40% discount offer, scroll to the end of this post. Tiptoeing on … Continue reading
“The Minstrel Boy” Listen (John McDermott has a wonderful voice!) as if you’d never heard this song before. It isn’t just about Ireland: it’s about not surrendering your values. The Minstrel-boy to the war is gone, In the ranks of death you’ll … Continue reading
The first post in this series is here, second here, third here. All photos in this series are copyright © 2017 Dianne L. Durante. General Slocum General Henry Warner Slocum, on the east side of Grand Army Plaza, is by Frederick MacMonnies, who … Continue reading
Now available: print versions (in full color) of Alexander Hamilton: A Brief Biography and Alexander Hamilton: A Friend to America, volume 1 and volume 2, which includes all my Hamilton blogs posts. For a 40% discount offer, scroll to the end of this post. Hamilton plunges … Continue reading
The first part of this series is here, the second here. This one goes from the Concert Ground to the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Arch at Grand Army Plaza. All images copyright © 2017 Dianne L. Durante. Washington Irving When it comes … Continue reading