Did you dress up as a witch, a ghost, or someone else with supernatural powers this Halloween? Your costume idea may be older than you think! Around this time of year, many girls all over the world are enjoying their Halloween candy. Celebrations of the...
Espowyes awoke to her grandmother’s gentle shaking. The sunlight was barely showing from behind the mountains, which surrounded the her village next to the river. As she pulled on a clean deerskin dress, moccasins, and her necklace of quills and...
Ixchel, the jaguar goddess of midwifery and medicine in ancient Maya. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixchel Today, when most people think about the pre-Columbian Maya people, they think about the long-count (Mayan) calendar and sites like Chichen Itza. But a lot of...
Common meal for Asia Minor refugees in Mytilene, Greece. http://www.naftemporiki.gr/story/388321 At the beginning of the 20th century, the newly established Greece and the Turkish National Movement found themselves in conflict over territory in Asia Minor. The dispute...
Young girls having fun at a tea party. Their table and chairs are made from crates! http://www.antiquetoychest.com/2010/10/halloween-tea-party-girls-circa-1935/ Do you have an elderly relative who insists on washing, flattening, and saving aluminum foil for reuse? Or...
David, Joanna, and Abigail Mason, 1670. M. H. de Young Memorial Museum of the Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco. http://public.gettysburg.edu/~tshannon/341/sites/Childhood/Daily%20Life.htm Most people in colonial America were farmers, tilling land that had...
