The Night Garden by Michael Chabon Chabon’s first novel for adults since 2016, inspired by a short story by Nathaniel ...

The Library of Michigan chooses books published the previous year that are about Michigan or the Great Lakes or are written ...

Can you imagine a city in the United States naming itself, "Cornwallis," for the British general who surrendered to George Washington at ... assertion in the Wikipedia entry you get if you search ...

Forty years after Washington’s farewell and two decades before the Civil War, President Andrew Jackson offered his own ...

Writing a biography ... notably Washington hostess Gwen Cafritz and Eleanor Roosevelt — disdained her, until they, too, were won over. A family friend introduced Perle to George Mesta, a ...

Love anything enough and it will reveal its secrets to you.” So said George Washington Carver, one of the world’s greatest of scientists, yet most modest of men. Glenn Clark, ...

Socialite Perle Mesta used her fortune to host inclusive dinner parties in Washington, D.C., becoming one of the most famous ...

Perle moved to Pittsburgh after marrying George Mesta, a steel magnate ... She spent that fortune to Washington, D.C., making herself famous, says Marie Ridder, a conservationist and retired ...

Murphy after 1912 — while he was hospitalized about to have brain surgery! Another of the famed Cubs from the previous decade’s successful teams, Johnny Evers, was named manager. The Cubs did all ...

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Dinner parties in the capital have long been a path to power, but Perle Mesta had her eye on a different prize.

For a limited time, George Washington’s inaugural coat, which distanced his office from the military and from European royalty, will be on display at Mount Vernon. By Alexander Nazaryan Fashion ...