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Arthur Wesley Dow honored–officially
IHS hosts an intimate exhibit of Dow art and memorabilia. No other establishment in the country boasts a collection of Arthur Wesley Dow’s art like the Ipswich Historical Society and Museum.
The Fighting Escadrille Lafayette
Civilization likes to lionize men who serve in war, clearly a centuries-old tribute. But 100 years ago in World War I, the world lost an entire generation of young men who had earned infinite tributes, chiefly because WWI was like no other...
Regan’s Palette Stonehill College
Library Exhibit
Stepping into Joanne Regan’s studio is much like stepping back into childhood, with all the delights of sight, sound, smell, confections, and playthings, nudging those memories and leaving one on the verge of a giggle as one imagines a pirouette in front of her warm, pot-bellied stove...
Saving a Boston Grande Dame
The magnificence, dignity, vastness, and pitch-perfect acoustics of an abandoned church is in one of Boston's oldest neighborhoods, close to downtown, it proportionately kisses either cheek of Boston’s Kenmore Square and South End. A perfect venue for...
Norman Rockwell and Bradford Herzog
Although it has been eight years since the artist Norman Rockwell died, his legacy continues in the memories of Milton resident Bradford Herzog. Herzog worked with Rockwell, producing portraits of famous people...
Letitia Baldrige, a lady, first and foremost, and Jackie Kennedy
For “baby boomers” and older folks, the name Tish Baldrige is synonymous with the Kennedy White House, sensible, good manners, foreign embassies, Tiffany diamonds. And names like JFK, Jackie, Caroline and John-John, Pierre Saltinger, Nancy Dickerson, Oleg Cassini–and a host of other luminaries during the early 1960s…
Wedding Fashions for the Ages
There’s something about a wedding gown. Say those two words, and most women fairly swoon. Well, perhaps Victorian women “swooned,” today they’re more likely to discuss being a savvy consumer of wedding attire. But scratch the surface of any red-blooded gal and observe...
The Russians are Coming to the Back Bay
When Josef Stalin put the bureaucratic brakes on Soviet Russian artistic freedom, it became an era of wilderness for the passionate Russian psyche. Despite those restrictions, “unsanctioned” works of art slowly crept into the Russian underground, then mainstreamed...
The Cole Papers
In a letter this year to her readers, “Dear Abby” sheds light on a “hot-off-the-press” book of war letters written by Andrew Carroll entitled “War Letters, Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars...
French Country Style Decorating
“Provence and Languedoc share a uniquely Mediterranean lifestyle. Compared to the rest of France, the air here is drier, the sun stronger, and the light beloved by so many painters, appears clearer..."
Plan a Visit with the Adamses of Braintree
John Adams sacrificed his popularity and the esteem of his peers for the birth and first steps of his beloved new nation. How patriotic is that—how utterly selfless? Image and political correctness were not always on John Adams’ mind when he tried to...
Grand Keepsakes for the Gilded Age
When driving around the thirty-four towns of Essex County, past the usual mid-century modern land-and-cityscapes, we tend to slow down and marvel at the occasional acre of still-virgin land whose horizon is broken only by a stately and elegant home...