I grew up with the three-in-a-row packaged in cellophane variety of tomato in the winter, as that “red ingredient” to put into our...

New Haven: City of Parking Garages. I was just in New Haven to attend the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections...

Barcelona, 2008. For a while, I collected photos of manhole covers during my travels. A manhole cover that says “Acquedotto” looks way...

Continental Journal. October 23, 1783. Photo: Newsbank, American Antiquarian Society. #costume #dress #England #fashion

In November of 2008, during the time of the last presidential election, work took me to southern France. Here’s a clip of my travel...

Group listening to Bob Diamond of BHRA in the tunnel under Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn. RL Fifield, 2010. Until December 2010, at the...

I wear a badge, so when I am travelling through the galleries during open hours, visitors ask me questions – and I really try not to...

This eighteenth century spelling of waffles was too good not to share. From Hannah Glasse’s The Art of Cookery (1747/1805): To Make...

Nearly fifteen years after its publication, Sarah Susanka’s The Not So Big House has turned into a movement. Visit the website here. I...

Cosplay-Japan Expo 2012. Photo by Lomita. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported. I was minding my own business on...

Last Tuesday, I was somewhere in eastern Ohio. I had access to a car, and nothing to do for eight hours. You got it – it was Lincoln...

How to cover a 400 year old mattress? Comparing dusts vacuumed from a chair every three years to tell if it is deteriorating? Condition...

In three short chapters, the small gem of a book Circles and Lines; The Shape of Life in Early America (2004) explores the shift from a...

An orange not seen in nature. Hence the “Distinction, Sanitation, Satisfaction.” The pamphlet elaborates inside: “Sanitation Without A...

Photo: Box of Apples.com. Asparagus season is drawing to a close, depending where you live. If you’ve reached your limit of fresh...

Rotterdam Harbor. RL Fifield, 2009. When you mention Rotterdam to so many Europeans, they sigh. Ms. A’s Dutch friend remarked “Well,...

Passing under the lift bridge serving the Norfolk & Southern Railroad at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River. RL Fifield, 2012. There’s a...

New: see the full article online here. If it doesn’t come up, go to the home page and search again. Abraham Emmit labeled her “an ill...

Baa. Cool it, already. Photo: Imaginactory. John Wily wrote the motivational pamphlet A Treatise on the Propagation of Sheep, the...

Balconies of Gustavino tile at The Cherokee Apartments. RL Fifield, 2005. Others have blogged about the Cherokee Apartments before, and I...