Note from Evangeline: I’ve been a fan of Melody’s review blog, Redeeming Qualities, for a while. If you recall an earlier vintage review I wrote for this site, owning a Sony Reader opened the doors to a lot of forgotten fiction published during the Edwardian period. This is where Melody&[...]
Posts Tagged ‘new york’
June 14th, 2010 - 10:52 am § in Food
Coney Island Delicacies
Michael Immerso, in his book “Coney Island: the People’s Playground,” describes the epicurean delights found at the year-round New York amusement park “as combustible as its fastest rides.” It was Coney Island where Americans—native born or immigrant—tasted the literal melting pot that[...]
May 5th, 2010 - 7:30 am § in Arts
American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
Introduction The spring 2010 exhibition organized by The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art is American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity, the first drawn from the newly established Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Met. The exhibition, on view from May 5 through August [...]
Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free: Ellis Island
Gilded Age America saw not only a boom in millionaires, but a boom in immigration. During this era, approximately 10 million immigrants entered the United States, hungry for religious freedom and greater prosperity. The most striking of these immigrants were Eastern European Jews fleeing the bruta[...]
