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John Wootton
Few circumstances are more frustrating than reading about an interesting, even historically important, painting and…
On the Road With the Unstoppable Albert Bierstadt
As a kid growing up in Manhattan, I went to nursery school down the street…
Lou Pasqua
The meticulously conserved furnished rooms and artwork in the Elisabeth Ireland Poe Gallery at Pebble…
Roger Tory Peterson – the Book, the Man, His Wives
It all began in 1976, after my high-school-sweetheart husband dumped me for a friend of…
Congressional Gold Medals for Arthur Shilstone’s WWII Unit
If only well-known watercolor artist and sportsman Arthur Shilstone (1922-2020) were still alive!
In Praise of the Sardine
When my darling niece and her sweetheart’s family begged us to take them on safari,…
Tracking Down Frank Stick on the Outer Banks
If, in 1977, I was the leader of our first quest together – sighting red-cockaded…
Terry Mathews’s Elephant – a Football Icon
by Brooke Chilvers You haven’t lived if you haven’t been to a Durty Nelly’s Irish…
Tracking Tigers in Life and in Art
The first tiger in my life was Shere Khan, the “chief among tigers” in Rudyard…
What’s in a Name?
I miss bookstores. Not mall bookstores with 50 shades of the same thing, but independent…
Fine Arts & Flowers, Galas & Gowns – and Mellon
by Brooke Chilvers Around the time I bought my first pair of bellbottoms, my mother…
From the Clairière de l’Armistice to Franz Marc
Virtually every French king, and two self-proclaimed emperors, hunted stag, roe deer and wild boar…Gray's Sporting Properties
