Saturday, May 4, 2024
Plymouth, 1621. Pilgrims, who had arrived on the Mayflower one year earlier, and a handful of Native Americans from nearby tribes gather to celebrate a successful harvest with an extravagant feast. Three days long, the event includes many of the traditional Thanksgiving foods Americans enjoy today: pies, mashed potatoes, cranberry […]
“They are greatly charmed with gifts, but they expect no return for what they give, nor feel any obligation for what they receive.” Thus quoth Tacitus, the historian of great renown, of the Germanic tribes. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a kenning as “a metaphorical compound word or phrase … used […]
We all know how important it is to use the right materials. The last thing we want to do is bite into a chocolate chip cookie only to find out that someone chose the wrong materials and instead used… raisins. Oh, the tragedy! It might still be a good cookie, […]
Thanksgiving, a season for school breaks, awesome food, and of course being thankful, but fashion? Normally, you wouldn’t find fashion and Thanksgiving in the same sentence unless it was a style guide for what to wear to your family Thanksgiving or Friendsgiving. However, I was recently reminded of the pilgrim’s […]
Glassblowing is a form of art that many are familiar with. Huge furnaces, long blowpipes, and blobs of molten glass are all a part of the process. Usually, hollow ornaments, bowls, and larger glass sculptures are a result of glassblowing. But rather than standing in front of a 2,000-4,000 degree […]