SPOILER ALERT! IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THE LAST EPISODE OF DOWNTON ABBEY, SEASON 2, BE ADVISED. SPOILERS! Isn’t it amazing what you can find on the internet? Downton Abbey. Google. A few clicks of the mouse here and there. Up pops Lady Violet – as a paper doll! There are Ladies Sybil and Mary. Even [...]
Archive for the ‘Historical’ Category
A Downton Doll to see you through
Posted in Historical, Just for fun, movies, Television, tagged Downton Abbey, Lady Violet, Lord Grantham on Monday, February 20, 2012 | 18 Comments »
Moon Over Manifest
Posted in Adventure, Books, Children's books, Historical, tagged Clare Vanderpool, Great Depression, influenza epidemic of 1918, Moon Over Manifest, Newberry Award book, Spanish Flu epidemic, World War I on Friday, February 17, 2012 | 22 Comments »
I had just crossed the Illinois/Wisconsin state line, there was nothing worth listening to on the car radio with stations fading in and out faster than the speed limit, so I plotted my exit to the next Cracker Barrel for an audio book and, well, and a “pit” stop. There were plenty of books to [...]
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Posted in Arts and Crafts, Books, Children's books, Family and friends, Historical, Just for fun, tagged Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House books, Little House in the Big Woods, The Long Winter on Monday, February 6, 2012 | 26 Comments »
“In 1906 Laura Ingalls Wilder visited her daughter, Rose, in Kansas City, MO. While she was there this studio picture was made. Her life in the LITTLE HOUSE books was just a memory and her writing career had not begun.” From a postcard of Laura Ingalls Wilder Home Association, Mansfield, Missouri If you guessed Laura [...]
Feather duster or flowerpot?
Posted in Books, Children's books, Family and friends, Famous and infamous, Food, Gardening, Historical, tagged Elmhurst Garden Club, feathers, flower pots, Hats, High Tea, Serene Tea Elmhurst on Sunday, February 5, 2012 | 30 Comments »
I’m trying to decide if I want to put a flower or a feather in my hat. Important decisions such as a these take time, especially if you are someone like me who does not look particularly fetching in a hat. One’s hair must be right and the tilt of the hat just so. The [...]
What we learn between the pages
Posted in Historical, tagged Alert Today Alive Tommorw, bomb shelters, book groups, Cold War, Elmhurst Historical Museum on Friday, February 3, 2012 | 18 Comments »
I love the book group I am in, not only for the variety of books we read, but because it is such a caring and congenial group. There is always something new we learn about each other in between the pages we discuss, which happened again last Thursday as we finished our discourse and enjoyed [...]
The Paper Garden by Molly Peacock
Posted in Arts and Crafts, Books, Gardening, Historical, tagged "flower mosaicks", Mary Delany, Mary Granville Pendarvis Delany, Molly Peacock, The Paper Garden on Wednesday, June 1, 2011 | 14 Comments »
Bloomers. Late bloomers, to be exact. Late bloomers are not just flowers. Late bloomers are like the 72 year old English gentlewoman, Mary Granville Pendarves Delany, who, upon seeing a geranium petal fall, picked up a scissors and a piece of paper and invented the art of “flower mosaicks”. Mrs. Delany began snipping and pasting [...]
In Flanders Fields
Posted in Famous and infamous, Historical, Holidays, tagged In Flanders Fields, John McCrae, Memorial Day, poppies on Monday, May 30, 2011 | 10 Comments »
home.earthlink.net/~alrnevada/post149/id26.html Here in the United States, we honor all who sacrificed their lives or returned home injured from war and dedicate a day, Memorial Day, each May, to honor them. There are parades and ceremonies at cemeteries and parks, national tributes and prayers in houses of worship. The poem, In Flanders Field, was written by [...]
The Brontes at Haworth
Posted in Books, Famous and infamous, Historical, tagged Ann Dinsdale, Anne Bronte, Bronte Sisters, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Haworth Parsonage, Jane Eyre, Simon Warner, The Brontes at Haworth, Wuthering Heights on Tuesday, May 24, 2011 | 14 Comments »
I went looking for an audio book to pass the time on our long drive up north, but, found Ann Dinsdale’s The Brontes at Haworth instead. A weekend away with our up north family and a side trip to the Yorkshire Moors and home of one of English literature’s most enduring writers all at the [...]
A wedding and tea
Posted in Family and friends, Historical, tagged PG Tips Tea, Princess Catherine and Prince William's wedding on Friday, April 29, 2011 | 12 Comments »
Here on the cutoff, still in my pajamas (the ones of the Easter nest fame), with the television broadcasting quietly so as not to awaken the lord of the manor, I sat, channel surfing, at 4 am. From NBC, CBS, ABC and, of course, the BBC, waiting for the wedding to begin. I’m mush when [...]
