Breakfast Links: Week of October 2, 2017

Breakfast Links are served - our weekly round-up of fav links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
• Vice wars: New York City's scandalous censorship past.
• Paul Revere's midnight ride - by day, in a car.
• Aboard the Dashing Wave : a passenger's journal from a 1859 clipper ship.
• Women who went to war in 1861: the Civil War vivandieres .
• Which side would you choose? Family ties and the British occupation of Philadelphia during the American Revolution; part II here .
• "How many stamens has your flower?": The botanical education of Emily Dickinson .
• Image: Late 3rd-early 2ndc BC gold earrings with pendants of flying Nike with torch.
• Why did the great Gilded Age mansions lose their luster?
• Image: Fanny Brawne's fashion notebook.
• Forgotten wartime doughnut heroines.
• The first monument in New York's Central Park wasn't to a general or politician, but to a German poet .
• The myth of Robert E. Lee and the "good" slave-owner.
• Image: "The cruel seas , remember, took him in November," 1592.
• Marie Duval , the pioneering 19thc cartoonist that history forgot.
• Paisley shawls from a visit to the Paisley Museum (original article is in Spanish; even if you don't read Spanish or have a translation feature, the photos are stunning.)
• Poconos & Catskills resorts (think Dirty Dancing) idyllic in 1960s postcards compared to abandoned disrepair today.
• Nellie Bly , intrepid journalist.
• Image: The New York City house where Louisa May Alcott lived while writing Little Women.
• James MacLaine , the gentleman highwayman.
• Thomas Carr of Lincoln, dealer of almanacks and...fish.
• Inside an iconic 1977  Playboy Bunny uniform .
• Video: Truly amazing video: how fourteen wolves changed the ecosystem of  Yellowstone National Park .
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection