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A suckingly pig from Tio Pepe’s, the best Spanish restaurant in Baltimore, Md. This pig arrived seemingly well educated although the one lens of his glasses was a bit singed. What can you say to a guest at your party? “Go home and get some clear glasses before we clear you away!” Frankly Mr. Suckling […]
Drum roll please. Last night to benefit Pickering Creek Audubon Center in Easton, Maryland, husband and wife chefs donated a six course meal paired with wines from their own cellar. The third course was fresh figs stuffed with Gorgonzola in a bed of baby spinach with a sherry vinaigrette. The dinner was served on the […]
ROSEDOWN PLANTATION STATE HISTORIC SITE Rosedown Plantation is located in the West Feliciana Parish community of St. Francisville along one of the most historic corridors in South Louisiana. Daniel and Martha Turnbull began construction on the main house at Rosedown in 1834, completing it by May the following year. The home was furnished with […]
56 degrees Fahrenheit, the temperature of water from a fresh spring in Baltimore County, Md. Fresh water from a limestone base that we drank today. Can you imagine having fresh water scooped with a ladle by the spring for us to drink. To drink a garden, to see a garden, to smell a garden, to […]
University of Maryland Wye House Archeology Exhibition Opens at Academy Art Museum Easton, MD, 1963, Photograph by Historic American Buildings Survey. (Courtesy of the Wye House Collection) The historic finds from eight years of excavations at Wye House — one of the most important and well documented plantations in Maryland — will be on display […]
Wickliffe Castle, a home designed by Baltimore architect Wilson L. Smith, was built for Dr. and Mrs. Walter Wickes in 1912. The 182 acre estate was originally owned by Charles Carroll, a Marylander and only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence. It replicates a late medieval castle similar in design to Warwick Castle in […]
by Carlisle Hashim The Guggenheim Museum on 89th and Fifth in New York City is round. Designed round, a piece of architecture where the viewer rarely encounters intersecting lines. James Turrell, the 20th Century Light and Space artist, was commissioned by the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Guggenheim Museum to fill the top five tiers of […]
Some practitioners call it Rock Balancing. Some call it the ancient art (or Zen) of Stone Stacking, while others call it cairn or dolmen constructing. Often remote & anonymous, these simple stone-on-stone sculptures speak to us like microcosmic written stories (bookmarks). We can read them as locators (breadcrumbs), places of ritual, icons, dancing spirit beings, calendrical circles, lightning rods, forts, falling stars, or other […]
Shame, shame on us- fried chicken, spicy no less for Sunday dinner. No veggies except coleslaw. Hubbie in line for the family style box, movement to my left compelled me to get out of the car. 100 yards away were neighbors from the Radford-Winston area of North Baltimore (near Loyola College ) who were […]
The Johns Hopkins University’s Evergreen Museum & Library concluded its House Beautiful Series with “Hillwood: Living Artfully with Marjorie Merriweather Post” . The Executive Director of Hillwood House and Gardens, Kate Markert marked the storied life and career of the “American Empress” Ms. Post. Marjorie Merriweather Post, heiress of the Post cereal fortune, was an only child. Her […]
The camellia is the subject of an online exhibit at the University of South Carolina, Phelps Memorial Collection of Garden Books. Mrs. Sheffield Phelps and her daughter, Claudia Lea, (1930s-1950s) the donors of the Library’s collection of garden books, were past presidents of the Garden Club of South Carolina and their garden, Rose Hill, in […]
James Turrell Perspectives, a new exhibit featuring the premier of a new installation entitled St. Elmo’s Light, is now on view at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD. James Turrell is an internationally-acclaimed light and space artist whose work can be found in collections worldwide. Over more than six decades he has pursued his fascination with the […]
