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lostpastremembered
lostpastremembered
Max 1897
I have wanted to write about Max Beerbohm for years. Zelig-like, he appears regularly in the English-speaking cultural timeline of the late 19th to mid 20th century and b...
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lostpastremembered: February 2022
William H Vanderbilt mansion 1882 57th & 5th
At last, after 10 years of nearly as much off-screen drama as on – years of rumors, flipping networks, starts, stops and plagues -- Julian Fellowes’
The G...
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lostpastremembered: 2021
Robert Winthrop Chanler 1900 (photo from Rokeby Collection)
A few years ago, I came across a photo of a darkly enchanted, Audubon-with-an-Edward Gorey-twist of a room at Rokeby House in upstate NY. Ge...
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lostpastremembered: 2020
Legend has it that the first pandemic, The Black Plague (also known as the Bubonic Plague or
Yersinia pestis), came west from Egypt in a basket of grain in 541 AD.
Byzantine Constantinople - modern ...
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lostpastremembered: April 2021
Cornelius Gijsbrechts 1630-75
I guess it should come as no shock that a person who choreographs objects for a living might be drawn to the art of
Assemblage - 3D collages, 2D representations of the...
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lostpastremembered: January 2021
It’s over.
As I reflect on the wreckage of 2020, I think of a world devoid of heroism and greatness run by venal, cowardly men -- a world teeming with hollow sociopaths who could care less that hund...