You remember the Boston Tea Party. Delawareans of that time were equally pissed off about Britain taxing them without the colonists having a say of any sort in the matter: “taxation without representation”. In 1773… Read More »“He will be hung out as a spectacle!”
Yes, I thought it was charming that Delawareans of the early 18th century would skate—Hans Brinker style—on the local ponds in the winter. These days you don’t see people doing that here, either because ponds… Read More »What’s really behind that wall?
What happens when you’re confronted with an important building whose history needs to be told/shown, but that building is literally a tumble down wreck?
As I’ve been traveling about this past year gathering photos and stories on historical sites across Delaware, I’ve been amused as well as entertained by the fact that curators of historic properties often love pointing… Read More »Yes, but was it graffiti?
Until the advent of digital tools such as Photoshop, and now AI, the average person believed that what they were shown in a photograph represented the truth of what stood before the camera at that… Read More »Literal truth…or psychological truth?