Dreamers Rise

It's become a bit of a commonplace in contemporary natural history memoirs that the subject can't only be the natural world; there h...

Henry Fielding: Booth, as the reader may be pleased to remember, was a pretty good master of the classics; for his father, though he desig...

Thomas Keightley: "Another wonderful thing," says Ralph of Coggeshall, "happened in Suffolk, at St. Mary's of the Wolf-...

Three people I used to know fairly well at various times in my life have died this year. One was a childhood friend I hadn't seen since ...

John Brewer, describing a night at the Royal Drury Lane Theatre in 1769: During the hour before the curtain rose the theatre was filled by w...

We're in the process of completing our second relocation of the year, having most recently moved from temporary digs in Portsmouth NH to...

Here's a little object lesson in the compartmentalization of modern life. One afternoon we went out for a drive and as we headed to our ...

Eleanor Clark, on the Oysterman's Cooperative building in Brittany, where "there is just about everything there you could ever need...

Sir James George Frazer: Not only among the Celts but throughout Europe, Hallowe’en, the night which marks the transition from autumn to...

From 1839 to 1841 the American traveler John Lloyd Stephens and the British artist Frederick Catherwood traveled throughout Mexico and Centr...

This ill-starred year grinds towards its end but still has ample time to accumulate additional misfortunes. My body remains on summer schedu...