Introduction I wrote this book because I love to weave, but I don’t have the energy or the room for big and fancy looms. So I read a lot of books about off-loom weaving, and I experimented a lot, and I came up with the method I’ve written about here. I owe a tremendous debt ...
Lewis Hine was a photographer who was famous for his historical pictures of immigrant and child laborers in the early 1900’s, which he did to help gain public awareness of the harsh labor. Born Lewis Wickes Hine on September 26, 1874 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Hine enrolled in the University of Chicago in 1900, where he ...
In 2009 Lifetime released an original made for TV biopic on the life of the influential American female artist Georgia O’Keeffe. The title of the film simply bears the name of the artist herself. Recently this movie was released on DVD and while on a rental hunt I stumbled upon it. In my research I ...
There’s a lot more to New Mexico than sand, rocks and heat. For one thing, the state constitution specifies it’s officially a bilingual state. Approximately one third of the families in the state speak Spanish at home. According to Factmonster, in addition to the standard state symbols, New Mexico even has an official cookie (the ...
