Nick Boschetto

Nick Boschetto

Stuckey’s: A Sweet Roadside Oasis

Pecan Log Rolls

by Maxine Carter-Lome, publisher   “You’ve got to be honest with the public. And you’ve got to work. Of course, good luck won’t hurt.” – W. “Sylvester” Stuckey, Sr.   With a vision, strong work ethic, sweet offerings, and an…

Victorian Mourning Warehouses: One-Stop Mourning

Cover and title page of A History of Mourning by Richard Davey, commissioned by Jay’s London Mourning Warehouse to offer rules of etiquette for mourning during the Victorian Age.

by Maxine Carter-Lome, publisher   “MOURNING—Court, Family, and Complimentary—The Proprietors of the London General Mourning Warehouse, Nos. 247 and 249 Regent-street, beg respectfully to remind families whose bereavements compel them to adopt mourning attire, that every article (of the very…

Memorial Flowers: The Oldest Form of Tribute

by Judy Gonyeau, managing editor   The arrangement and placement of flowers around the dead are considered the oldest act of mourning. During the 1951 excavation of the Shandiar Cave in Northern Iraq, Dr. Ralph Solecki discovered several burial sites.…