I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself,  than be crowded on a velvet cushion.                               ...

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. The word demo...

Cased Glass   has been in existence for of a number of centuries, in many countries including China, Germany, and Bohemia,  yet the best pi...

Columbus Day celebrates, simply, the 1492 five week voyage of three small Spanish ships - the Nina , the Pinta , and the Santa Maria - th...

Blue Willow is a distinctive elaborately patterned dish ware designed by Thomas Minton in 1790.  The pieces are examples of blue oxide tra...

The Autumnal Equinox in the northern hemisphere occurs when night and day are nearly the same length of 12 hours each.  This happens the m...

It is never too late to become what you might have been. George Eliot, aka Anne Evans, 1819-1880,  English Novelist