What A Wonderful World: The 1964-65 New York World’s Fair

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By Donald-Brian Johnson Abe Lincoln was there. So were the “Flintstones.” Michelangelo’s Pieta paid an exclusive visit. The enormous inhabitants of Sinclair’s “Dinoland” bid folks a toothy welcome. And, it’s ...

Seeding a Historic Garden

America, experimentation, Features, food, Gardeners, Gardens, historic house gardens, house gardens, Hyde Park, inspiration, Longwood Gardens, Master Gardeners, Maxine Carter-Lome, Middleton Place, Monticello, personal pride, The Griswold Museum, Winterthur Museum Garden and Library

The Realized Visions of Six Master Gardeners By Maxine Carter-Lome Gardens can be a source of food, inspiration, experimentation and personal pride, all key elements behind some of the greatest ...

In Living Color

Donald-Brian Johnson, Features, Flowers, gardening, Gardens, Nursery, Outdoors, Plants, Seeds, Spring, Winter, Yards

Vintage Seed Catalogs Story & Photos by Donald-Brian Johnson From the mid-1800s onward, many a wintry day passed faster as mailboxes welcomed colorful seed catalogs, chock-full of the latest seasonal ...

Embellished for the Elements

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Outdoor Furniture from Wicker to Wrought Iron By Maxine Carter-Lome Since the dawn of time, Man has strived to be one with nature, or to at least admire it from ...

Tiffany Mosaics At the Corning Museum of Glass

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The Creation of the First Major Exhibition of Tiffany Glass Mosaics "God has given us our talents, not to copy the talents of others, but rather to use our brains ...

Glistening Glory: Collectible Cased Glass

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Article and photos by Donald-Brian Johnson "Bend me, shape me, any way you want me ..." Glass. You can bend it and you can shape it. You can also mold, ...

Roland "Max" Erlacher: Master Glass Engraver

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By Debbie Tarsitano Max Erlacher is an engraving legend in the Crystal City, Corning, New York. Born in Austria in 1933, a young Max witnessed Austrian master engraver Herman Schiller ...

Christian Dorflinger and the American Cut Glass Industry

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By James K. Asselstine Christian Dorflinger's story is that of a young Alsatian visionary who built one of the leading glass companies in America in the late Nineteenth and early ...

Championship Collectibles At Auction

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By Terry Melia Photos courtesy SCP Auctions On the night of November 2, 2016, at 28 minutes past midnight, Chicago Cubs' third baseman Kris Bryant scooped up a weak ground ...

Baseball World Series

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History and Collectibles By Marshall Fogel and James Dahlen Photos by James Dahlen At the end of the 2016 Major League Baseball season, more than 40 million people tuned in ...

For the "Love" of Tennis Collecting

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Collecting tennis memorabilia can be challenging, fun, and rewarding. Discovering a tennis treasure, whether it is a postcard one doesn't have, or a Victorian garden umpire chair, thrills the true ...

Marie de Hoa LeBlanc and Early Newcomb Designs

Adrienne Spinozzi, Art, Artistry, Creole, Design, Emilie de Hoa LeBlanc, Features, Marie de Hoa LeBlanc, Newcomb, Newcomb Pottery, Pottery

by Adrienne Spinozzi Marie de Hoa LeBlanc was one of the most accomplished and prolific decorators during the early period of production at Newcomb Pottery. Along with her older sister ...

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