Article Archive for May 2011
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Guest post by Kara Dirkson, ASA and owner of Artisia Fine Art Services
Not so long ago I discovered the writing of Minnesota native Siri Hustvedt. She writes fiction as well as non-fiction and in both …
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Seeing Ivan Albright’s painting, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was like seeing a terrible accident. You know the carnage in front of you will haunt you for years, yet you can’t look away.
Admittedly, I never …
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Often, the women of the Alaska gold rush days are overlooked as simply “entertainers,” or worse. But, the women who populated Alaska’s dance halls and brothels were much more than that. They were confidants to …
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I first began leading “bookstore road trips” to New York City in 2003. I’d load 50 people on a chartered bus in Harrisburg, PA, and we’d spend the day visiting the 20 or so indie …
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Pioneers who came to the prairie feared it as much as the wildfires, hurricanes, or the plagues that tormented their homelands. Tales and lore tell of them losing their dogs, their belongings, and even their …
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Libraries aren’t like they used to be. It’s pretty rare to hear a “SHUSH” from a stern librarian sitting at a desk, stamping due dates on a pocket inside the cover of her tomes. Today’s …
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We all love Jack and Annie, the heroes from the Magic Tree House series! In their Polar Bears Past Bedtime book, Jack and Annie end up being whisked away to the frozen Arctic. Luckily, a …
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NOTE: The museum is closed for refurbishment from 10th April until December 2012
It is the best of times at the Charles Dickens Museum in London.
The museum at 48 Doughty Street, London, first opened in 1925, …
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Just in time for the summer reading season, Amazon.com announced its list of the Top 20 Most Well-Read Cities in America. After compiling sales data of all book, magazine and newspaper sales in both print …
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It takes about eight hours to travel South Dakota by car from border to border. I am so thankful I don’t have to travel in a wagon like the Ingalls family did in the 1800s. …
