A direct ancestor of a friend was hanged as a witch in Salem, Mass. “My great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother,” said Mary Broas, “was accused twice.” Susannah Martin was hanged on July 19, 1692 after being found guilty of causing damages through witchcraft by those who did not like her. Her husband successfully defended her the first time, but after his death, Martin was helpless. She was strong and defiant until the end. […]
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This essay by Ronnie Hess revisits her journey, through translated letters, to learn about and try to find peace with her Jewish grandparents’ lives in Nazi Germany.
A film recently came out starring Steve Carell and Emma Stone titled Battle of the Sexes. It’s a dramatization of a famous tennis match in 1973 between men’s tennis player Bobby Riggs and women’s tennis player Billie Jean King. Spoiler alert: King won the match, and that victory was a sizable step for women’s tennis on the “taken-seriously”-o-meter. If you’re wondering why I’m bringing this up, it’s because, after rummaging […]
by Christina Kinsella It’s amazing to think that there was a time when cultures and countries relied on mailing letters as their sole method of communication. When we discover old family letters, it is as if some exciting new world has opened up for us. If we can still find fascination in an older form of correspondence, then why does it have to be nearly obsolete? Why not decide to […]