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I've been writing about the country homes in the village of Woodside, Queens, that were owned by three New York merchants — John A. Kell...

The other day I showed a tintype of my great-grandfather's home in Woodside, Queens. When he moved his family there in 1867 the villag...

This photo shows my grandmother in the garden of her father's estate, Hillside Manor, in Woodside, Queens, NY. She was Clara Louise Wind...

I've written before about my great-grandmother, Hannah Eliza Lefman Windmuller, whom people called Annie . During the warm months of th...

I'm reading a book called How to live, or, a life of Montaigne: in one question and twenty attempts at an answer . Its author, Sarah Ba...

A Facebook friend recently put this in his status box: "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will...

In the 1890s, American printers produced some excellent color advertising. This ad for Newsboy Cigars was printed in 1894 by the Calvert Li...

I like verse anthologies. I generally read them through, skimming over entries that don't grab my attention, but also trying to read wi...