Word: embroiderer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Social standing is always relative. To the hardscrabble peasants down in the Irish village of Ballybeg, the clan in the big house on the hill is the nobility. But at Ballybeg Hall the members of that gilded tribe are keenly aware of a wider world and their piddling place in...
This is the suburb as failed Eden, noted by two out of three American sociologists and not a few novelists. But Fischl's project is not to embroider cliches on it. Rather he finds images that seem to trail a whole narrative history behind them, but obliquely -- so that you...
According to the Ribbon Project newsletter, "Participants may applique, batik, embroider, hook, needlepoint, paint, quilt, silk-screen, tie-die, weave, reproduce photographs, use iron-on fabric paints...to tell this nation that we love the earth and its people."
"I love this city. I loved living here and being so close to the seat of power, being part of the political system." It is not hard to guess that the city is Washington, D.C., but the identity of the speaker might come as a surprise to those who thought...
He was the first sheriff of Independence, Mo., the first white man to lead a party to the brink of the Yosemite Valley and the first to lead a wagon train into California, in 1843. Frontiersman Joseph Walker, says Biographer Bil Gilbert, "should have become a gaudy boon to the...