August 15, 2023 Inspired by stories from his grandfather, his “Battle of Lovell’s Pond” appeared in the Portland Gazette in 1820 when he was 13
August 14, 2023 A Native American story says this creek got its name from an injury suffered by a Sioux warrior in a fight with the Crow
August 12, 2023 An aria from this opera says, “Put on your costume & apply make-up to your face. The people pay & they want to laugh”
August 11, 2023 Sabena Airlines commissioned a painting by this artist, “L’Oiseau de Ciel”, a bird whose body is filled with clouds in a blue sky
August 10, 2023 He turned to opera with the 1903 work “Guest of Honor” likely inspired by Booker T. Washington’s dinner at the White House
August 9, 2023 A Catholic charity called Caritas Rome is the beneficiary of money collected from here, over the years averaging about $3,500 daily
August 7, 2023 When Esquire began as a men’s lifestyle magazine in the 1930s, he was asked for manly content and wrote in 28 of the first 33 issues
August 5, 2023 Asked to design a new set for a restaging of this 1952 play, Alberto Giacometti came up with one scraggly plaster tree
August 4, 2023 This character from an 1859 novel symbolizes the fates, who in mythology spin the web of life, measure it & cut it off
