Author: Ms. R.

When you visit Lewes, Delaware, you’ll make it about four seconds before learning from a sign or local that the town is the first town in the first state in the United States.  With historical ties like that, it’s only right that the Lewes Historical Society celebrates in style. On the first Friday of each month, Rabbit’s Ferry House, on the LHS’s Shipcarpenter Street campus hosts a drinking experience fit for a Founding Father.  Rabbit’s Ferry House itself has……

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Located at the edge of Beacon Hill and directly across from Boston Common, the George Parkman looks almost identical to many other buildings in the area. There isn’t even a plaque indicating its historical association, but this unassuming home has a dark history. It once belonged to the victim in one of the most sensationalized murder trials of the 19th century, which also revolutionized the field of forensic science.  George Parkman was a Boston Brahmin and a member of……

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Babe Didrikson shattered both records and glass ceilings during her athletic career. During the 1932 Olympics, she walked home with a silver and two gold medals in track and field. Although she passed away at the age of 45 after a battle with cancer, she accomplished an astonishing amount during her lifetime. Didrikson won 82 professional and amateur golf championships, leading ESPN and Sports Illustrated to later crown her the “Top Woman Athlete of the Twentieth Century.” In addition……

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One of the most surprising statues in Madrid is this 2001 statue of the street sweeper in action. This is one of those statues that one could easily pass by and ignore due to its realism. Going up from Puerta del Sol in the direction of Lavapiés, visitors will always meet the same character halfway: the humble street sweeper from the Plaza de Jacinto Benavente. The statue was a token of gratitude from the mayor of Madrid who wanted……

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The Henness Pass route over the Sierra Nevada, about halfway between Donner Pass (on the south) and Yuba Pass (on the north), had become a popular route into California by the 1850s. It avoided Donner Pass, which had acquired a sinister reputation due to the fate of the Donner party in the 1840s. A road was constructed along the route in the 1850s, and by the 1860s, with the discovery of silver in the Comstock Lode in Nevada, much……

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“From Madrid to the sky,” the phrase that defines Madrid for locals comes true in this tower that has nevertheless experienced its fair share of neglect and rebirths in its short history. But what is a lighthouse doing so far away from the coast? Constructed in 1992, the year in which the city was designated the European Capital of Culture, the Moncloa Lighthouse was conceived as a communications structure that housed antennas and equipment for television and radio broadcasts…….

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A butcher, a man with a whip, and a jolly bishop walk into a bar. This is not, in fact, the opening line of a twisted joke—it’s preparation for the biggest day of the year in Nancy, an elegant city in France’s Lorraine region. St. Nicholas Day is celebrated across many European countries on December 6 or the weekend following it. Each evening in Nancy from late November till early January, a lights display projects a story onto the……

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