This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Rockefeller family’s residency at Kykuit, their elegant estate nestled in the Pocantico Hills high above the Hudson in Sleepy Hollow, New York. Its comm...
Dreams of Madison-Bouckville
It’s spring, and as an avid antiquer, my dreams once again turn to… the Madison-Bouckville Show! The thoughts persist through the spring and early summer, until the third week of August, when the ...
Recipes from the Past
In the nineteenth century, many legends arose about the history of what was even then known alternatively as “ice cream” and “iced cream.” Didn’t Nero make it? Surely the Emperor of China had s...
De-accession at Albright-Knox Big Hit Despite Controversy
When the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY announced the de-accession of more than 200 objects last November, it’s a safe bet that they didn’t know what would follow. Given what...
A major exhibition exploring the rich history of ice cream, from its ancient origins through the present day, Ice Cream: Our Cool Obsession comprises historical artifacts, contemporary and historic...
As could be said of many historic structures, if only walls could talk. So it could be said of the Hanby House, a modest museum on the Otterbein College campus in Westerville, Ohio, just north o...