Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset into the street at Salem village; but put his head back after crossing threshold, to exchange a parting kiss with his wife. And Faith, as the wife was aptly named, thrust her own pretty head into the street, letting the wind play with the pink ...
Today’s Spotlight is on this book called Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. Voice 1 Food is a very important part of family life. It is part of everyone’s history and culture. Faith D’Aluisio and Peter Menzel wanted to show how diet affects health and culture. And they wanted to...
Signs of St. Anthony’s fire were easy to see: seizures, hallucinations, and blackened limbs. Medieval Europeans believed its cause to be spiritual, but the true cause was far more earthly.
Today, there are galleries, studios, restaurants and newly built work spaces where neighbors share experiences, where there is renewed life and energy. In this way, arts and culture also serve as a public good. TeCo Theatrical Productions Inc. made use of Bloomberg’s investment of $35,000 ...
What is La Niña?According to NOAA, La Niña is the cooler phase of a weather pattern known as El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) with El Niño being the warmer phase. La Niña develops when the waters of the tropical Pacific Ocean are cooler. El Niño develops when the waters...
Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset into the street at Salem village; but put his head back after crossing threshold, to exchange a parting kiss with his wife. And Faith, as the wife was aptly named, thrust her own pretty head into the street, letting the wind play with the pink ...
The colony in Salem Village In the late 17th century, there were two Salems: a bustling commerce-oriented port on Massachusetts Bay known as Salem Town, and roughly 10 miles inland, a smaller, poorer farming community of some 500 people known as Salem Village. ...
Roanoke is a Powhatan word meaning “white beads made from shells” — something used as money by many indigenous Chesapeake-area peoples. The Norfolk and Western Railway continued with that name until June 1982, when it became known as the Norfolk Southern Corporation. ...
Dressing up as a salacious version of a cat, a ketchup bottle, or even Mr. Rogers feels like a very modern shift. The tradition actually began in the1970s with the LGBTQ+ communityin New York City. Greenwich Village’s annual Halloween Parade was the birthplace of the tradition, where it...
The Kaatskill Kaleidoscope, also known as the Emerson Kaleidoscope, is a near-60-ft-tall grain silo that’s actually the world’s largest kaleidoscope watching over the rustic community of Mount Tremper. The kaleidoscope was built in 1996 and less than a year later it made it into the Guin...