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The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime
World War I is one of history's greatest tragedies: four long years of deadlock and barbaric slaughter, physical and moral exhaustion, and finally...
Magazine Antiques, 08/01/09 by Wendell Garrett · More from publication -
Editorial
America is West and the wind blowing. America is West and the wind blowing. Archibald MacLeish, "American Letter," New Found Land, 1930 From...
Magazine Antiques, 07/01/09 by Wendell Garrett · More from publication -
So during the weeks that [President] Arthur lived in General Butler's old home he generally came to the Executive Mansion every evening after dinner, and made a thorough inspection of the offices and state apartments and living rooms above them. Night aft
William Henry Crook, Memories of the White House: The Home Life of Our Presidents from Lincoln to Roosevelt, comp. and ed. Henry Rood (1911)...
Magazine Antiques, 03/01/09 by Wendell Garrett · More from publication -
Editorial
Walker Evans regarded every photographic image as essentially a reference, a ratification, a philosophy of authentication chat led him to begrudge...
Magazine Antiques, 02/01/09 by Wendell Garrett · More from publication -
Editorial
The Bohemian-born, Vienna-educated immigrant Francis J. Grund admitted to a lack of "a certain mechanical perfection" in American-made products,...
Magazine Antiques, 01/01/09 by Wendell Garrett · More from publication -
Antiques
Of course an over self-conscious straining after a nationalistic form of expression may defeat itself. But this is merely because...
Magazine Antiques, 11/01/08 by Wendell Garrett · More from publication -
Antiques
I trust, that our alliance and intercourse with France may enable us, as a nation to shake off the leading-strings of Britain,--the English...
Magazine Antiques, 10/01/08 by Wendell Garrett · More from publication -
Antiques
... there is properly no history; only biography. ... there is properly no history; only biography. Ralph Waldo Emerson, "History," Essays,...
Magazine Antiques, 09/01/08 by Wendell Garrett · More from publication -
Antiques
Of all the great things that the English have invented and made a part of the credit of the national character, the most perfect, the most...
Magazine Antiques, 08/01/08 by Wendell Garrett · More from publication -
Antiques
In character Maine always was and still is a province by itself, distinctive from its neighboring States. The coastwise steamers ... between its...
Magazine Antiques, 07/01/08 by Wendell Garrett · More from publication
