photo credit: One From RM
It was in January of 1942 that it was widely believed Nazi Germany made the decision to kill 11 million Jews, homosexuals, Jehovah’s witnesses, Roma, political prisoners, and Blacks. Since then, the January 1942 epoch is what all historians have marked the actual beginning of the “purge.” But recent architectural […]

I had first read about the Catskills in an Art Spiegelman graphic novel. It was – perhaps satirically – depicted as a place of rest for the father in the story of Maus. The significance of the Catskills is not to be overlooked. Its history, its culture, and what it represents to our changing attitudes […]

One of the five remaining murals of Jose Miguel Covarrubias, “Flora and Fauna,” now on display at the San Francisco De Young Museum.
In 1939 an odd, pentagon-shaped island arose from San Francisco Bay’s murky waters to be the showcase of a rising and affluent West. Treasure Island would be host to the last great fair […]