Montreal’s founding dates to May 17, 1642, when Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve led about 50 French settlers to the island at the confluence of the St. Lawrence and Ottawa rivers, establishing Ville-Marie as a…
Some fears are irrational, but fear itself is not. In that first inaugural address, FDR was onto something: panic, softened to “fear” in his 1933 speech, was a greater obstacle to recovery from the Great…
The first Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy of the United States, were held on May 4, 1959, casting a new national spotlight on several musical achievements from 1958. They were originally called the…
the idea of a stroll through the garden gained currency as other aims waned and withered, yet her penchant for distraction often spoiled such a ramble. today’s turn could forgive others, though, and the…
No sentence in the next four paragraphs of this admittedly frank, cathartic rambling, to my mind at least, can be refuted. That was the prompt, the challenge I set for myself and ultimately tried to…
George Frideric Handel’s Messiah premiered in Dublin on April 13, 1742, 284 years ago today, at Neale’s Music Hall in Fishamble Street, and was a significant event in the city’s cultural life at the time…
it’s terrible when the knick isn’t mutual, and the left won’t get on a plane and stay out of sight, out of mind, out of time in a place where leaving is an…
On March 16, 1751, 275 years ago today, James Madison was born at Belle Grove Plantation, his mother's family home in Port Conway, Virginia. Often called the “Father of the Constitution,” Madison was also the…
