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• More ‘Letters Back Home’

  
  The Platform — Authority: 534
  We are pleased offer another installment in our occasional series called “Letters Back Home.” We have invited readers to write a letter to their favorite old home and send a copy to us. It could be the place where they grew up or maybe…
  11 hours ago

• Local History News check up

  
  Minnesota Local History - Weblog — Authority: 412
  In June 2009 Local History News  switched to Informz, which enables Minnesota Historical Society to monitor how well this service is used. Prior to the switch it was not possible to tell beyond anecdotal evidence how well Local History News was read. Just looking at the last two months of issues, Local History ...
  4 days ago

• Builders Unearth a Mystery in Times Square

  
  City Room — Authority: 772
  A stone wall offers tantalizing hints to its past, and a tantalizing, not to mention convenient, quest for reporters.
  4 days ago

• Sheppard Spy

  
  The WORCESTER PARK Blog, Surrey — Authority: 126
  Eric Sheppard is looking for information on a descendant and wonders if the readers of The Worcester Park Blog can help: "A family member Alfred Charles Sheppard was living at 28 St Philip’s Avenue, Worcester Park in 1915 and I was wondering if anyone in the area knows of the family?" If you can help Eric with ...
  4 days ago

• Answers About the History of New York Dining, Part 3

  
  City Room — Authority: 772
  William Grimes, the author of "Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York" and a former restaurant critic for The New York Times, is responding to readers questions.
  1 week ago

• Big Tim Sullivan, Tammany Kingmaker

  
  City Room — Authority: 772
  A book by Richard F. Welch examines the life of Timothy D. Sullivan, known as Big Tim or Big Feller, who was one of the citys most powerful politicians in the first decade of the 20th century.
  1 week ago

• Snow And Lights

  
  Outside - Looking In — Authority: 116
  For once the forecast was correct. Here was the view at 9 p.m. yesterday evening. The next two were taken about and hour later We have no idea of how long the snow continued but when we awoke this morning, this is what greeted us:- What a pity it came just one week too ...
  1 week ago

• Answers About the History of New York Dining, Part 2

  
  City Room — Authority: 772
  William Grimes, the author of "Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York" and a former restaurant critic for The New York Times, is responding to readers questions.
  1 week ago

• Answers About the History of New York Dining

  
  City Room — Authority: 772
  William Grimes, the author of "Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York" and a former restaurant critic for The New York Times, is responding to readers questions.
  1 week ago

• The Birth of New Yorks Art-House Cinema

  
  City Room — Authority: 772
  The independent film movement has roots in the New Yorker Theater, an art-house cinema that operated on the Upper West Side from 1960 to 1973.
  1 week ago

• Lingering a little longer in a mediaeval cathedral

  
  PATRICK COMERFORD — Authority: 127
  Saint Edan’s Cathedral, Ferns … the saint became Bishop of Ferns in 598, a year after Saint Augustine became Archbishop of Canterbury Patrick Comerford It is 35 years since I moved from Wexford Town in December 1974, leaving the staff of the Wexford People group of newspapers, where I had been a staff ...
  1 week ago

• West Village Bookstore May Get a Reprieve

  
  City Room — Authority: 772
  Left Bank Books may not have to close after all. The owner now plans to sign a five-year lease in the coming weeks to move to a larger space in the neighborhood.
  1 week ago

• From the Archive: Shave and a Haircut …

  
  More to Explore — Authority: 121
  by Lesley Drayton, Curator of the Fort Collins Local History Archive While going through a folder of photographs that includes Fort Collins businesses beginning with the letter “B” (encompassing Bakeries, Billiard Parlors, Blacksmiths and more!), I found this wonderful picture of the Campus Barbershop that ...
  1 week ago

• Park Life

  
  The WORCESTER PARK Blog, Surrey — Authority: 126
  Blog reader Matt has sent me these pictures of filming activity taking place at the historic Nonsuch Mansion last week. As you may have read on The Brinksters blog earlier this year the interior of the mansion has recently been rennovated making the local venue of choice for for weddings as well as an increasingly ...
  1 week ago

• Remembering Hovings Service as Parks Commissioner

  
  City Room — Authority: 772
  Ralph Blumenthal, a longtime reporter for The New York Times, recalls covering Thomas P. F. Hoving during his tenure as parks commissioner, in 1966 and 1967.
  2 weeks ago

• And this is also Kings Cross

  
  Kings Cross Local Environment — Authority: 122
  A fabulous short spotted on YouTube by neighbour Yolande, starring Emily Bronte (Mikes Cat), the tiny nesting platform wangled out of McAlpines whilst Kings Place was being built and the lemon scented geranium donated to the towpath garden by our own local Dr Sarah.  If you havent visited the Canal Museum yet, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Where Rink Now Stands, an Isle Is Planned

  
  City Room — Authority: 772
  In Prospect Parks lake, an island that disappeared nearly 50 years ago beneath a skating rink is to re-emerge, Atlantis-like.
  2 weeks ago

• Answers About the Chrysler Building, Part 2

  
  City Room — Authority: 772
  Taking Questions: This week, David Stravitz, the author of "The Chrysler Building: Creating a New York Icon Day by Day," responds to readers.
  2 weeks ago

• Answers About the Chrysler Building

  
  City Room — Authority: 772
  Taking Questions: This week, David Stravitz, the author of "The Chrysler Building: Creating a New York Icon Day by Day," responds to readers.
  2 weeks ago

• [Interview] Jay Luke

  
  Conversations with Writers — Authority: 116
  Musician, graphic designer and local historian, Jay Luke is a graduate from Marywood University. He is also a project engineer with the Olyphant Coal Miner Memorial Association. His first book, When Coal Was Queen (Tribute Books, 2009), looks at the history of Olyphant, Pennsylvania. In this interview, Jay Luke ...
  2 weeks ago

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