Arts

This narrative begins with the death of its hero. Silas Deemer died on the I6th day of July 1863, and two days later his remains…

The air was thick with the war feeling, like the electricity of a storm which has not yet burst. Editha sat looking out into the…

I One sunny afternoon in the autumn of the year 1861 a soldier lay in a clump of laurel by the side of a road…

“Ġgantija” (Maltese pronunciation: [dʒɡanˈtiːja], “Giantess”) is a megalithic temple complex from the Neolithic on the Mediterranean island of Gozo. The Ġgantija Temples exceed 5 meters…

Vagabonds the world would no doubt call many of my doorstep acquaintance, and I do not attempt to defend them all together against the world,…

Henry Saylor, who was killed in Covington, in a quarrel with Antonio Finch, was a reporter on the Cincinnati Commercial. In the year 1859 a…

‘I am not so superstitious as some of your physician’s men of science, as you are pleased to be called,’ said Hawver, replying to an…

“Göbekli Tepe” (Turkish: ɟœbecˈli teˈpe; Turkish for “Potbelly Hill”), which is actually a complex comprised of many temples, may have been the first temple in…

“In the summer of 1881,” I met a man named James H. Conway, a resident of Franklin, Tennessee. He was visiting San Francisco for his…

The little girl came into her papa’s study, as she always did Saturday morning before breakfast, and asked for a story. He tried to beg…

Away up in the heart of the Allegheny Mountains, in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, is a beautiful little valley through which flows the east fork…

Palace of Saint Nicholas in the Moon Christmas Morning My Dear Susy Clemens, I have received and read all the letters which you and your…