Tag: vintage
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Selfie Circa 1900
“What do you mean, Phib?” asked Miss Squeers, looking in her own little glass, where, like most of us, she saw – not herself, but the reflection of some pleasant image in her own brain.” Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
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Dying For A Lost Cause–Is It Worth It?
Rose O’Neal Greenhow‘s father was murdered at random by an unknown assailant. That’s enough of a story for most lives, but there’s more. This pretty little lady became a famous Confederate spy credited by Jeff Davis for the win at the First Battle of Bull Run. Before the war she married well and moved to…
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Heaven On Earth/Women, the Vote and Mark Twain
“I think it will suggest to more than one man that if women could vote they would vote on the side of morality, even if they did vote and speak rather frantically and furiously; and it will also suggest that when the women once made up their minds that it was not good to have…
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Rocking The Galoshes–Upstate Style With Dog
Frigid temps, cool skirts and warm hearts. Happiness begins with a good hair day and a smile. How’s about we go sledding later, boys . . .
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First Horse and Buggy Ride . . .Seaside Heights 1969
There I am in the hat. My mother sewed a string into it so I wouldn’t lose it at the beach. You know those weird crushes you have on older cousins? The one’s even at age four you know are somehow a little off? Between my mother and her sister they managed to produce a…
Author Adrienne Morris 