Stones Fall from the Sky
Sherry Rind examines our night skies. Is it a shooting star or flying debris? … Continue readingStones Fall from the Sky
Category: Archived
German Immigration and New York’s Garment Industry
By Lisa Peterson By the turn of the 20th Century, German immigrants, many of them Jewish, were coming to America in droves to start a new life. They landed in New York City equipped with their trade, as milliners, tailors, and hat makers. These men and women were skilled at
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The Velvet Album
Barbara Krasner explores an album left behind by her deceased grandmother, whom she has never met. … Continue readingThe Velvet Album
Fine Arts
In this poem Gayane M. Haroutyunyan explores the lives and struggles of some of the most famous artists of the past and present. … Continue readingFine Arts
The Testimony
This poem by Diane G. Martin memorializes her Great Aunt Lillian’s days as a flapper driving around in her sleek Packard. … Continue readingThe Testimony
The Indian Army in the First World War
The film documents research being carried out by participants from the local Hindu, Sikh, and Muslim community. Here they develop display panels for a touring museum exhibition. They also access archive material previously unseen, and some not explored for 100 years or more, while reflecting on the involvement of the Indian Army during WW1. … Continue readingThe Indian Army in the First World War
The Alchemist’s Bench
In this fiction piece by Josh Woods, a professor in Missouri buys a glossy black wooden bench adorned with ornate letters of the Persian alphabet at a garage sale for a dollar. The catch? The owner says it’s cursed. … Continue readingThe Alchemist’s Bench
Opening a Closed Book
A small box of family treasures given to Gayla Mills by her father sparks a journey through the generations. … Continue readingOpening a Closed Book
Excerpts from ‘Old Greer County’
These two poems are part of Ryan Clark’s series exploring the history of the part of southwest Oklahoma that was once Greer County, Texas. … Continue readingExcerpts from ‘Old Greer County’
The Conjurer
This poem by Susan J. Cronin implores of the reader the same thing painter Hieronymus Bosch, who died in 1516, did of his audience: Look again. … Continue readingThe Conjurer