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March 30th, 2013
 | 02:44 pm - I see by your outfit
Cabinet cards (and other photographs) from Tumblr collections
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March 29th, 2013
 | 03:32 pm - Memories of Easter
Not me -- found on the internet for illutrative purposes -- but it's close
Preparations usually started a few days before with the dyeing of the eggs, which I was never crazy about, since I hated the smell of vinegar, and, for that matter, didn't particularly like hard boiled eggs, either.
We wouldn't get whole new outfits, but my Mom would usually make some effort to buy me and my two sisters a new article of clothing, and dress us as nicely as possible. Which usually wasn't a good idea since the day's activities included a big dinner and running around in the backyard and kneeling on the grass looking for hidden eggs. Years later she wised up and let us change out of our clothes after church.
I never did understand or accept either of the stories about the crucifixion and resurrection or a giant bunny hiding eggs -- much less any connection between the two -- but I was grateful for the jelly beans and chocolate bunnies. Back then there weren't all those commercial Easter baskets (now with toys!) at every store, once or twice we got modest ones put together by our Mom. My favorite treat one year was one of those eggs made out of sugar with a small tableau you can peek at inside.
She would trundle us off to First Presbyterian church -- again, I was skeptical, since I had never heard of a Second or Third Presbyterian church, so why try and jack up the importance of your name? -- and we'd fidget through the sermon about resurrection and rebirth. For God so loved the world he sent His Son to suffer and be killed for our sins???!! -- not one bit of that made any sense then and it still doesn't today.
Then we would head to our Grandmother's for an Easter egg hunt and then dinner, usually ham or lamb, but since she learned to cook Italian for her husband, dinner would often include a dish of lasagna, and since she grew up in Jamaica, every meal also included their ubiquitous peas and rice side dish, which we always called rice and beans.
What few traditions I still observe about the holidays usually revolve around food and giving gifts. About the only thing I do each Easter is look for -- and it's very specific -- those mini speckled candy-coated chocolate covered malted milk eggs. I consider it a good Easter if I've found a package of those.
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March 14th, 2013
 | 10:08 am - Bodybuilders of Yore
Cabinet cards (and other photographs) from Tumblr collections
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March 13th, 2013
 | 03:15 pm - Military Mustaches
Cabinet cards (and one tintype) from Tumblr collections
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March 12th, 2013
 | 10:50 am - Bountiful Beards
Cabinet cards (and one tintype) from Tumblr collections
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March 6th, 2013
 | 08:52 am
Super Noodle, West Village, NYC
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February 7th, 2013
 | 11:31 am - Favorite Covers of the New Yorker 2012
This week's New Yorker anniversary issue cover of Eustace Tilley as a Brooklyn hipster reminds me that I have not yet put together one of my annual posts, with my favorite covers from that magazine for the previous year.
From last winter, this is possibly my most favorite of the year -- not only is it a striking composition of the Flatiron building seen through the fog with Madison Square Park's trees darkly in the foreground -- it is also because it is effectively my backyard -- we live a block from both the Park and the Flatiron building, can see them from our apartment windows, and this is the quality of light and color we see on the occasional foggy morning.
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February 4th, 2013
January 27th, 2013
| 10:46 am
Jacob Javitz Convention Center, NYC
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