The Vintage News May 7, 2018 E.L. Hamilton In 1864, as the Civil War raged across the divided states, President Abraham Lincoln took time away from military matters long enough to sign a two-paragraph bill that would change the course of American landscape forever. The Yosemite Land Grant was the first ever to set aside land … Read more
The Vintage News Apr 19, 2018 E.L. Hamilton If you want to talk the history of beer over a pint, what better place than the world’s oldest continuously operating brewery? Forty miles due north of Munich, braumeisters at the Weihenstephan Abbey have been boiling hops for nearly 1,000 years. And the seeds of beer history were planted even … Read more
Mar 29, 2018 E.L. Hamilton The Vintage News Bozo the Clown. Photo: Getty Images The partially blind man who became the most popular Bozo the Clown of all bluffed his way into the Marines during WWII. How? He passed the vision test by memorizing eye charts. Bob Bell wasn’t the only red-haired, red-nosed, floppy-shoed Bozo. But … Read more
June 29, 2018 by Paulo Coelho Illustration by Ken CraneAs a boy, Abin-Alsar overheard a conversation between his father and a dervish.“Careful with your work”, said the dervish. “Think of what future generations will say about you.” “So what?”, replied his father, “When I die, everything shall end, and it will not matter what they say.” Abin-Alsar never … Read more
Feb 27, 2018 Nikola Budanovic The Kingsford Country Park in Worcestershire, England, appears not to be much different from any other park across the country. It covers an area of 200 acres in a pine and broad-leaved forest, offering a beautiful natural resort. But beneath the woodland lies the true secret of Kingsford Park: 3.5 miles … Read more
Mar 19, 2018 Stefan Andrews One of Norway’s greatest archaeological finds takes us back to the late 19th century when two youngsters reportedly decided to have some fun by starting to dig in what people of the area called “the king’s mound.” A prominent mound indeed, its location was a farm in the Sandefjord municipality, slightly to … Read more
Dec 21, 2017 E.L. Hamilton Photo Credit: Clotee Pridgen Allochuku CC By 2.0 When an L.A. hospital ceased operations on November 30, 2017, it closed its doors on a piece of Los Angeles history that stretched back nearly 150 years to the city’s dusty and dangerous birth. Founded to protect French expatriates from smallpox, the French … Read more
