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The Gentleman from Georgia: William N. Banks Jr., remembered
His real interest was in social history. It was the architecture first, then the people and their stories. I don’t remember anyone ever telling Bill what to write about. He chose his topics, and they were consequently connected to his heart and mind.
Mad Scientist (From our Archives)
Eugen Gabritschevsky was born in Moscow, in December of 1893, into a bourgeois, cultured, and highly educated family.
Stories You Can Wear
All About the Genre of Narrative Jewelry
Living with Thomas Jayne (From our Archives)
Jayne describes what he does as “collage decoration”
Who was the Burpee-Conant Limner?
America is filled with local history museums, town libraries, and regional art museums containing some of the finest examples of early American portraiture
A portrait takes shape (From our Archives)
In late October 1916 the American impressionist artist William Merritt Chase lay dying at his town house on East Fifteenth Street in Manhattan
The Virginia Dulcimer (From our Archives)
For generations of Virginia musicians, dulcimer (or dulcimore) has described a family of instruments with three characteristics
Living with antiques: A California family gathers its history in a coast-to-coast collection of Americana (From our Archives)
You might say that this story begins with a canary-yellow jug.
Living With Antiques: The Kentucky collection of Sharon and Mack Cox (From our Archives)
Step into Sharon and Mack Cox’s house in Richmond, Kentucky, and your eye might land first on the large stone fireplace at the end of their open living room