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The Reincarnation of MoMA |
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Written By: Noah Fleisher |
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When the sleeping giant that is the Museum of Modern Art re-opened its eyes last month – after a three-year, $425 million dollar re-design – the city of New York was abuzz. |
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The State Department Rooms |
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Written By: Randall Decoteau |
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One of the most exceptional collections of Americana is, in fact, one of the least known. Yet, the Collection of the Diplomatic Reception Rooms of the United States Department of State in Washington, DC retains some of the finest examples of American paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, and furniture from the golden age of American art dating approximately 1750 to 1825. The Collection was formed in only 30 years by Clement Congor, the founding curator, and cost the taxpayers of this country nothing. Every artifact and every dollar for acquisition was provided through the generosity of individual and family donors. |
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The Timeless Designs of William Morris |
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Written By: Dr. Ilya Sandra Perlingieri - Copyright Dr. Ilya Sandra Perlingieri |
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Textiles play a vital role in decorating our homes. How different a house would look without rugs, quilts, pillows, and gorgeous fabrics on chairs, couches, ottomans, and hanging from windows. It was William Morris who brought an expanded understanding of how textiles could beautify a home’s interior. Morris’ designs were a dramatic contrast to the stuffy and sometimes overwrought heaviness of Victorian interiors, and today they remain as vivid and fashionable as when he first produced them. Morris famously advised, “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” |
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The William Cullen Bryant Homestead - Cummington, Massachusetts |
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Written By: Randall Decoteau |
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William Cullen Bryant’s Homestead is nestled in the sunlit hills of Cummington, Massachusetts overlooking the Westfield River Valley. A staunch conservationist, Bryant was integrally linked to its farmland, forests, and streams, which inspired the great majority of his poetry. Today, the Homestead is a property of the Trustees of the Reservations, under whose stewardship visitors can see the home life of a man often described as America’s first poet of genius. |
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Victorian Cameos |
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Written By: Monica Lynn Clements |
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Throughout history royal figures have set the tone for fashion. Queen Elizabeth I enjoyed wearing cameos, and Catherine the Great maintained an impressive collection of them. The enthusiasm for cameos in the French court of Napoleon I saw a liberal use of carved gems as jewelry. |
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What’s Cooking at Plimoth Plantation |
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New England was home to the original Thanksgiving Day feast. That first celebration after the harvest of 1621 probably wasn’t about turkey, Aunt Sadie’s sweet potatoes, or time-honored recipes like creamed peas with onions, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie. So, I wondered as I drove to Plimoth Plantation, just what kind of cooking was done in early seventeenth-century Massachusetts? The aroma of frying onions drifting out of one of the houses partly answered my question and whetted my appetite for what lay ahead. |
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Wilton’s Militia: Fighting America’s Battles the Old-Fashioned Way |
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Written By: Randall Decoteau |
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Each April the states of Maine and Massachusetts celebrate Patriot’s Day to commemorate the battles and skirmishes that began our fight for independence on April 19, 1775. That “shot heard around the world” mobilized local militia throughout the colonies and today brings to mind the forgotten, often nameless farmers and shopkeepers who banded together in order to protect their local communities. |
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