Category: travel

Art Culture entertainment Homeschool Nature outdoors fun travel

Cultured Wednesday: Gifford’s Kauterskill Falls

By Anne on September 11, 2019September 11, 2019

This painting is a good example of Luminism, an offshoot of the Hudson River School.

Posted in: 19th century painters, American landscape painters, Art, entertainment, Hudson River School, Luminism, Sanford Robinson Gifford, The Catskills

Culture entertainment Homeschool Music travel

Classical Sunday: Smetana’s Moldau

By Anne on July 7, 2019July 6, 2019

Surely a melody you are familiar with.

Posted in: 19th century composers, Bedřich Smetana, Bohemia, Czech composer, Czech Republic, entertainment, Moldau, Music, Prague

All Things Cosmic entertainment Homeschool Nature outdoors fun travel

Link: Planet Line-Up; and Last Pictures

By Anne on December 31, 2018December 31, 2018

Want to welcome 2019 in grand style?

Posted in: Advice, astonomy, entertainment, Family, link, Nature, photography, travel

All Things Cosmic entertainment Homeschool Nature travel

Monsters of the World: Behemoth

By The 3rd Daughter on November 20, 2018

Mightiest of all: The Behemoth!

Posted in: entertainment, Monsters, Nature, travel

Culture Family History Genealogy Homeschool travel

Remembering Our Ancestors: Lion Gardiner, 1st Lord of the Manor

By Anne on November 16, 2018October 2, 2019

Here’s a noteworthy fellow…

Posted in: early American History, Family History, Gardiner's Island, Genealogy, Lion Gardiner, Mulford family, Saybrook Fort, Thanksgiving