History

The expressiveness of a simple line has fascinated artists throughout centuries and never failed to spark controversy over its ultimate mastery. The virtuosity as a draftsman is often recounted (cited)…

New York Fashion Week – four words that inspire designers across the world and fuel their creativity to create memorable designs and impactful runway experiences. Today, NYFW features more than…

Balmoral Castle in Scotland has been much in the news, for there Queen Elizabeth II died. Unlike the royal castles, such as Windsor, Kensington, and Buckingham Palace, Balmoral — which…

If you enjoy a crisp and cool glass of white wine, or perhaps a rich and sumptuous red, you’ll know the cork’s sound as it leaves the bottle. But what do you know about cork – and the difference it makes to enjoying your favorite type of wine?

There is no direct antecedent to our modern secular celebration of mothers, but it has existed, one way or another, for thousands of years. Here’s a timeline: – Antiquarians and…

As more survivors are lost to us every year now, we so often look to art and culture to preserve first-hand accounts of remembrance, as humans have been doing for millennia. Films and the newer immersive “virtual reality” experiences both are key ways that survivors’ stories are shared today, but nothing compares to hearing from an old friend who says, “That’s my story too.”

Hedda Kleinfeld Schachter was born in Austria to elegance, affluence, and education, and with her immediate family, was lucky to be among the few and fortunate able to escape Nazi-controlled Austria in the late-1930s. After her family landed in Brooklyn a few years later, she went on to become a brilliant fixture in New York bridal fashion, in particular — a trendsetter who made New York shoppers feel among the lucky and fortunate.

Going to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is an important trip to make. The in-person experience is significant, profound, and unforgettable, and luckily for those not in the Washington D.C. area, the Museum website offers a rich remembrance as well.

Anne, the Princess Royal, inherited her family’s love of life with horses and became the first British royal to compete in international equestrian events. Anne truly is the “hardest working royal” on behalf of horses and equestrian philanthropies.

It was the Roaring Twenties. Flappers raised their hemlines and lowered their morals. Prohibition was law since 1917, when the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution banned “the manufacture, sale,…

American industrialist Henry Morrison Flagler (1830-1913), co-founder of Standard Oil with John D. Rockefeller, developed the Atlantic Coast of Florida. He built the Florida East Coast Railway to connect Florida with all points north. And “The father of Miami” also founded Palm Beach.