[Halloween is the primal Celtic holiday, a night when the natural and supernatural worlds overlap and sometimes trade denizens. As…
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[Surely Europe’s oldest still-active holiday, Halloween is a natural power-point in time, a cross-quarter day between solstice and equinox such…
When her husband died of mysterious, seemingly sinister causes, Nancy Bowen feared she might be next. “Sassafras” Charlie Bowen was…
President McKinley’s visit to the 1901 Pan-American Exposition began “under every auspicious condition,” the Buffalo News reported, and “McKinley weather,…
In 1901, an estimate eight million curious tourists brought their wallets and their appetites to Queen City. Some were attracted…
Work is underway on an expansion of the Michigan Street Baptist Church. The addition on the north side of the…
More than eight million visitors came to the Pan-American Exposition in 1901. There was a lot of money to be…
It is difficult to understand how this reference to a secret order has passed unnoticed for so long, for it…
The Pan-American Exposition began with a flash and ended with a bang. It was a grand affair, “transforming a begrimed…
It always helps to double-check and triple-check the spelling of a Polish surname (or better yet, just copy-paste it straight…