Word: curiosities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pope John Paul II signed one once after an outdoor Mass in San Francisco's Candlestick Park. Like Whitey Ford, who writes "Ed Ford" to conserve energy, the Pope went with "JP II." If he knows baseball, he might wonder what ever happened to that era of priceless memories when...
Ken Russell is the movies' version of your dotty old aunt -- the one who lives in a house overstuffed with curios, who natters engagingly about arcane ( matters and who, when you ask for a snack, whips up a feast too big for one tummy or a hundred. Don't tell...
Stankard, 44, is an artist in glass. His nimble fingers can fashion fragile slivers into wild flowers with a captivating attention to detail; leaves have been munched by insects; petals show the wilt of age; and beneath the plant a tangle of roots seeks nourishment from the earth. True, they...
Tombstone had the climate, a desert that bursts alive in spring, the San Pedro Valley, Dragoon Mountains to the north, Huachucas to the south, and sunsets that turned the land lavender. With fresh paint, new lumber and much of America out on the open road in the modern prairie schooner...
Nineteenth century travel photographers used chemicals and light to catch distant realities upon a collodion wet plate and bear them home in velvet-lined boxes to London or New York. It was a cumbersome wizardry that they practiced, lumbering across Mexico or Africa in darkroom wagons. In desert heat they...