Lenora Rogers's Blog, page 87
June 6, 2016
They were what they Wore
This past week we were examining some social trends in my Elizabethan course, and I used several watercolor illustrations by the Flemish refugee artist Lucas de Heere to “color” some of my presentations and our discussions. De Heere (1534-1584) was a Ghent-born painter and poet, the son of well-established artists, who converted to Protestantism upon his marriage and therefore was inclined to flee the war-torn Low Countries with the onset of the Dutch Revolt. He came to Englan...
The Queen of Cities – Constantinople – like you have never seen her before!
The History of the Byzantine Empire
Have you ever wondered what the queen of cities – Constantinople – might have looked like? Today traces of the old Byzantine city literally still litter Istanbul. The most conspicuous of all of these structures has to the great church of Hagia Sophia (Ayasofya) that extends across Sultanahmet Square. But whether it is the Hagia Sophia or the imposing remains of the Theodosian walls; the Valens aqueduct, the sixth century Basilica Cistern, or the towering o...
Disney Artist Showcase at WonderGround Gallery
Don’t miss this great opportunity to meet Disney artists Ryan Hungerford, Michael Murphy and Bill Robinson
June 5, 2016
Central Street after the fire, 1894
The recently-discovered photo shown above was taken by George R. Dodge in the aftermath of the Central St. fire, which occurred in January,1894. Mr. Dodge would have been standing near the present-…
Source: Central Street after the fire, 1894
June 4, 2016
A walk in the Old North Burying Ground
The Old North Burying Groundat the intersection of High Street and Rt 133/1A was established in 1634 upon the founding of the town of Ipswich. Cast of Characters ICAM Ipswich Host: Paul Valcour Gu…
Source: A walk in the Old North Burying Ground
June 2, 2016
First Lady Nellie Taft and the CSO
Helen Herron Taft had two passions in her life. First and foremost was politics. Then came music.
Nellie Taft: Musician and Politician
One of the earliest photographs of Helen Herron, called Nellie from birth.
Piano lessons was practically a given in most nineteenth century middle-class families. Of course, then as now, not all children were musically inclined – or interested. Helen Herron Taft (Nellie from birth), of Cincinnati, Ohio, was one of those little gir...
“Our Ironclads on the James River”: The Collected Correspondence of “Garryowen”
Irish in the American Civil War
During the Civil War, newspapersfrequently published correspondence written by soldiers and sailors at the front. Some servicemen took the opportunity to act as quasi-reporters for particular publications, ensuring that their views and opinions regularly appeared in print. In May 1864, letters from an Irishman who went by the pen nameGarryowen began to appear in the pages of the New YorkIrish-American. Over the course of the months that followed, he wrote at l...
The Larssons’ Handmade, Homemade Bliss: Swedish Arts and Crafts
On the 28th of May 1853, artist and designer Carl Larsson was born in Stockholm. Following a difficult childhood spent in poverty, Larsson got a break when an art teacher recognised his talent and directed him towards a creative career. He started off working as an illustrator of books, magazines, and newspapers, then moved to Paris in 1877, where he did not integrate into the circle of the French progressive Impressionists and found it difficult to assert himself. Alongside other...
May 31, 2016
The Day the Nazis Bombed Dublin
Noel Brady was standing with his father at the hall door of their family home on St Ignatius Road in Dublin’s North Strand area when they heardthe drone of a Nazi Luftwaffe bomber flying overhead.
“I saw flashes in the sky. My father shoved me onto the ground and down on top of me he went. There was a very loud explosion,” he said.
It was May 31, 1941, Noel was 21 at the time and a member of the St John Ambulance Brigade. He grabbed his bicycle and raced to the scene and wa...
Memorial Day: Remembering three men from three wars
It’s difficult to walk through any older Southern cemetery and not find gravestones identifyingindividuals who gave their lives for their country.
Even if one doesn’t include the hundreds of thousands of Confederate dead that dot cemeteries from Virginia to Florida, the Carolinas to Texas, there are many, many thousands who died in the line of duty, whether it was during the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Indian Wars of the 1830s, the Spanish-American W...
