Enlightened Age

One day during my recent travels, I visited the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. It's quite a place, with vast collections of furniture, pai...

Home now after a wonderful vacation, I am back with some stories from my trip back east. I will be blogging a bit about some eighteenth cent...

I like to listen to our local cable music channel. It's a place to hear new selections, and then go get them for your collection. With ...

In the Summer of 2010, archeologists discovered the remains of an 18th Century ship at the World Trade Center's new construction site. ...

I just finished watching a wonderful lecture series about Greek and Roman technologies from the catapult to the Pantheon. It was fascinatin...

Recently I saw the movie "Belle" based on the true account of Dido Elizabeth Belle, daughter of a West Indian slave, and Captai...

Just as today, 18th Century bakers put a lot of importance on the type of ingredients they used for their bread recipes. Specific sources f...