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...World War I was a time of both modernism and nostalgia. Americans were exhilarated by a sense of the new but also yearned for the traditional. In the '20s newly minted products were routinely labeled STRICTLY AMERICAN. Collecting Americana -- "antiqueering," as it was known -- become a national hobby. Henry Ford filled warehouses with what he called "American stuff": Duncan Phyfe tables, endless volumes of McGuffey Readers and Thomas Edison memorabilia. John D. Rockefeller Jr. set about restoring colonial Williamsburg, Va., in the painstaking detail that only a billionaire could afford. In the '30s the New Deal was sponsoring research into...
That was years ago, but from then on I would periodically receive catalogs of historic documents. A group shot of Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan, autographed by each: $4,000. A nice letter from George Washington: $35,000. An autographed photo of Sitting Bull (signed "Sitting Bull...
Liam T.A. Ford '91-'92 is a beekeeper in his spare time. He dresses mostly in black, and a little yellow--no, make that orange...
Wednesday: Raiders of the Lost Ark with Harrison Ford and Karen Allen, at 3, 7:40 p.m. Close Encounters of the Third Kind with Richard Dreyfus, Francois Truffaut, Teri Garr and Melinda Dillon...
Interview conducted by Liam T.A. Ford...