This post is available as a video at https://youtu.be/mBIjL99oxMc. Just in time for Christmas (or birthdays, or long weekends...): Sunny Sundays, Highlights of FIve Years of Sunday Recommendations. Order from…
This post is available as a video at https://youtu.be/yIP9Nw3_5w8. NOTE: As of 5/15/24, this book (print and ebook formats) is temporarily unavailable while I prepare a second edition, with improvements…
These are my favorites among the thousands of photos I took last year in New York, Massachusetts, Colorado, Rhode Island, Florida, and Washington, DC. To make the cut, the subject…
Click here for all posts on the Flagler Museum. This week we’re looking at Henry Flagler's private railcar, built in 1886 by Jackson and Sharp of Wilmington, Delaware. In 1912, Flagler celebrated…
Click here for all posts on the Flagler Museum. This week we're looking at the upstairs of the mansion. Master Bedroom Master Suite, Flagler Museum, Palm Beach. Photo copyright ©…
The introduction to this series is in last week's post. Click here for all posts. South Hall Off the South Hall open the Billiard Room (left) and the Grand Ballroom…
Henry Morrison Flagler (1830-1913) became enormously wealthy as one of the founders of Standard Oil, which he joined in 1867. He was credited by John D. Rockefeller with developing the…
This week's post includes a number of seventeenth- and eighteeenth-century American artworks at the Wadsworth. The introduction to this series, about the Wadsworth family and the Wadsworth Atheneum, is here. For all…
This week's post is mostly on the legacy of the Colt family to the Wadsworth. The introduction to this series, about the Wadsworth family and the Wadsworth Atheneum, is here. For all…
This week we return to the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, after a brief diversion to the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida. This post includes several lovely sculptures of the…