Art

Niagara Falls to the Andes, With Frederic Church

American songwriter Marc Cohn, of “Walking in Memphis” fame, is likely the only singer/songwriter ever…

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…

On Safari with Grant Hacking

I wish I’d collected the T-shirts I’ve seen over the years of Africa’s Big Five…

Lou Pasqua

The meticulously conserved furnished rooms and artwork in the Elisabeth Ireland Poe Gallery at Pebble…

Spring Means Asparagus

As a child in the 1950s, I did not grow up with fresh asparagus. Or fresh…

24 Hours — OK, 48

We’d been gone from our cozy cottage in France for more than six months and…

Tafelspitz and Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow

The recent lifting of requirements for COVID-19 testing prior to travel to France, for fully…

Teddy Roosevelt and Gaston Phébus

I was raised in the school of fair-chase hunting by several professional hunters, including my…