The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, named after Ashurbanipal, the last great king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, is a collection of thousands of clay tablets and fragments containing texts of all kinds from the 7th century BC. The British Museum is re-cataloguing and studying the 30,000 volume Library.…
In the early twentieth century, Key West was the largest city in Florida. The Great Depression hit Key West hard and it plummeted from its status as the wealthiest city in the country (per capita) to the poorest. The…
The 50th anniversary of JKF’s death seems an appropriate time to share some pictures from a visit I made earlier this year to the Reading Room of the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas. The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza…
On a recent visit to the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works in Doylestown, PA I was surprised to come across this tile in the museum. Many of you will recognize it as the mark of the famous Venetian printer Aldus…
