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The City Whose River Caught Fire Cleveland Ohio was initially established in 1796. It remained a relatively sleepy community until the 1832 completion of the Ohio and Erie Canal which terminated there. Within five years of the Canal’s completion, the population had grown tenfold, largely by a surge in immigrants. This transformed the small port […]
An exhibit of Ramses the Great is spending 4 years touring around the world. It currently is in San Francisco at the DeYoung Museum before it moves on to its next stop. Who Was Ramses II and Why Was He So Great? Was Ramses II really one of Egypt’s more powerful pharaohs or was he […]
Diego Rivera is a famed early 20th-century muralist. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is currently exhibiting over 150 of his paintings, frescoes, and drawings that highlight his work from the 1920s to the 1940s when he was conceiving a new vision for North America. The Mexican Revolution Diego Rivera began his artistic career […]
In 1638, Puritans left the Massachusetts Bay Colony to establish a theocratic community. They founded New Haven Connecticut. The separate colony became part of the neighboring Connecticut Colony in 1664 and became a co-capital in 1701 (until 1873). New Haven was one of the country’s first planned cities. It was laid out in nine squares, each […]
Philadelphia has a fair number of museums. Not surprisingly, many Philadelphia museums are devoted to our nation’s history. Others focus on art. In 2022, we visited several of them. Philadelphia’s Historical Museums National Constitution Center The museum experience begins with a short (17 minute), very high-level, live human-narrated, multimedia overview of the country’s founding, history, […]
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) has almost 500,000 pieces of art ranging from ancient Egyptian to contemporary art. Some of our favorite galleries are the 19th and 20th-century American and French. What’s not to like about Monet, Renoir, Sargent, etc? On our 2022 visit, we also explored some special exhibits Philip Guston Now: […]