Downton Abbey: costumes at Winterthur
Note: this exhibition has closed. Spend an afternoon upstairs and downstairs in Downton Abbey, thanks to the gorgeous exhibits put together by Winterthur Museum in Wilmington, Delaware. Edith’s wedding gown […]
Monthly Archives: June 2014
TIPSY TOURIST: Firefly Distillery
The road to Firefly Distillery is long and winding, lined with crooked trees dripping with Spanish moss. It’s not far from downtown Charleston, but this spot on Wadmalaw Island is miles from the […]
Star Spangled bicentennial
I shivered when I saw the flag that flew over Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore on display with the manuscript that flag inspired. For just a few […]
A house for Poe
Edgar Allan Poe lived in a tiny rowhouse west of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor for a mere two years. He moved here from Richmond after a feud with his step father, moving […]
Memories of A Lost Town
The furnace that gives this ghost town its name stands silently now, what’s left of it soaring above the grassy indentation that was once its millrace. Furnace Town, located near the […]
