Archive for September, 2009
Summer is over.
Posted in Flowers & Other Plants, photographs, tagged flower pictures, Photographs, summer flowers on September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Remembering Oney Judge (c. 1773 – February 25, 1848)
Posted in Historical Information, tagged 1773, 1793, 1827, 1848, Fugitive Slave Act, George Washington, Jen Kirkman, Junius Brutus Stearns, Martha Washington, Mount Vernon, new hampshire, Oney Judge, slavery, virginia on September 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Oney Judge was born into slavery in 1773. She was the property of George and Martha Washington. After learning that she was to be made a wedding present to the Martha Washington’s granddaughter Eliza Custis, she escaped to New Hampshire in 1796. Here are the two newspaper interviews Oney Judge gave during her exile, and [...]
I love Craig Ferguson.
Posted in how we live, tagged Craig Ferguson, NPR on September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
That’s right, I do. I’d adopt him if he could afford to maintain me in a style to which I am not at this moment accustomed. Today when I was driving home from a visit to a client, I had the pleasure of listening to an interview with Craig Ferguson on NPR. I recommend it.
Hope Diamond
Posted in Historical Information, photographs, tagged England, Evalyn Walsh McLean, France, Harry Winston, Hope diamond, india, King Louis XIV, new york, Singapore, Smithsonian Institution on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The beautiful blue Hope diamond, purchased by American heiress Evalyn Walsh McLean in 1911, is on display at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC without its setting for the first time. The famous gem is being reset to mark the 50th anniversary of its donation in 1958 to the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History [...]
“It’ll never work!”
Posted in Historical Information, photographs, tagged first female police officer, historical photographs on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
White House Dogs
Posted in Animals, Historical Information, photographs, tagged historical photographs, spaniels, White House dogs on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Any man who does not like dogs and want them about,” Calvin Coolidge once observed, “does not deserve to be in the White House.”
RIP Jim Carroll (August 1, 1949 – September 11, 2009)
Posted in music, obits, Videos, tagged Jim Carroll, music video, obituary on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you are not familiar with Jim Carroll’s body of work, visit his website.
The hand of time
Posted in photographs, tagged 1920 on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
