New York Penn Station, thy name is Melancholy. New York’s Pennsylvania Station. Lost, 1963. Photo credit: New York Public Library via...

Santa Cruz County, Arizona. RL Fifield, 2009. My great uncle started a cattle ranch near Sonoita, Arizona in 1952. Sonoita isn’t a town...

Santa Cruz County, Arizona. RL Fifield, 2009. My great uncle started a cattle ranch near Sonoita, Arizona in 1952. Sonoita isn’t a town...

Cafe Witteveen (run by friend Jeremy W.) featured a website dedicated to the insignias of railroads long gone by. Honoring my Maryland...

Cafe Witteveen (run by friend Jeremy W.) featured a website dedicated to the insignias of railroads long gone by. Honoring my Maryland...

Baron Jean Louis Alibert performing the vaccination against smallpox in the Chateau of Liancourt, Constant Desbordes, c. 1820. Musee de...

Baron Jean Louis Alibert performing the vaccination against smallpox in the Chateau of Liancourt, Constant Desbordes, c. 1820. Musee de...

Grand Central Terminal. RL Fifield photo. When I leave the city, it’s either on a plane or a train. On a plane, you have little sense of...

Grand Central Terminal. RL Fifield photo. When I leave the city, it’s either on a plane or a train. On a plane, you have little sense of...

For those of us into food history, the New York Public Library has a fondant of a project: online transcription of their menu collection....

For those of us into food history, the New York Public Library has a fondant of a project: online transcription of their menu collection....

A cliché? Nah. I found myself in Paris for three days with some euros and a dinner recommendation from I speak enough French to order...

A cliché? Nah. I found myself in Paris for three days with some euros and a dinner recommendation from I speak enough French to order...

510 Spadina in the rain, Toronto, October, 2012. RL Fifield photo. During a short business trip to Toronto, I had the pleasure of getting...

510 Spadina in the rain, Toronto, October, 2012. RL Fifield photo. During a short business trip to Toronto, I had the pleasure of getting...

In April of 1940, there were just over 132 million Americans. Today, after the obligatory 72 year wait to protect the privacy of the...

I fully expect Masterpiece Classic’s Downton Abbey to inspire the costume choices of many next Halloween (see my post on Downton...

Apples at the Union Square Greenmarket, courtesy of Dr. V. Saturday night, I had a little dough left over from the quiche I was...

Cole Family Burial Mound, Aberdeen, MD, 2010. The mound was left after gravel stripping operations in the 1940s, and has now been...

Philadelphia – it’s not all founding fathers and liberty bells. City Hall, from the Ben Franklin Parkway. I went to Philly as an adult...