Gerard Darrow: From Quiz Kid to Broken Man

The Ephemera: A sweet-faced, intelligent 9 year-old boy–Gerard Darrow–who performed on a radio show called Quiz Kids.  LIFE says that Darrow “rescued this fledgling martin during a field trip at the Darrows’ summer cottage at Petite Lake, Ill.” Though Gerard was well-groomed and combed in the radio studio, he most loved being outdoors, where he… Continue reading Gerard Darrow: From Quiz Kid to Broken Man

From New Orleans Debutante to Wife of a Marxist, Divorce “Pioneer,” and Reiki Practitioner

The Ephemera Photo – Flickr/Bustbright Fortune, December 1938: About this time every winter in New York, if you happened to pass the Ritz toward eleven o’clock of a December evening, you would notice at the usually dark and deserted Forty-sixth Street entrance a swarm of limousines and taxis busily unloading a crowd of top hats… Continue reading From New Orleans Debutante to Wife of a Marxist, Divorce “Pioneer,” and Reiki Practitioner

Illustration Art Mania

I’m obsessed.  It began a few weeks ago when, on an Internet auction, I purchased an original drawing called “Rocket Speedway,” by Sidney Howell, executed in 1935.  Howell was an artist who occasionally worked for Orton & Spooner.  According to the University of Sheffield’s National Fairground Archives, Orton & Spooner major ride-builders and decorators based… Continue reading Illustration Art Mania

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Forgotten Woodstock: Seattle Pop Festival, 1969

Site of Seattle Pop Festival, Gold Creek, Woodinville, WA

Drive through Woodinville, Washington and it has the glimmer of an Eastside Seattle suburb that is rapidly expanding.  With its Target, brewpubs, and pricey housing developments, Woodinville is fairly unremarkable, a rural area reinventing itself as a wine-tasting destination. But on one weekend years ago, thousands descended on a rural and remote Woodinville to hear a… Continue reading Forgotten Woodstock: Seattle Pop Festival, 1969