The Vintage News Mar 30, 2018 Martin Chalakoski Deep in the Leno Valley of Trento Province in the far north of Italy, next to lake Lago di San Colombano, solitude is taken to a whole other level and isolation literally to new heights. While it is somewhat expected for a hermitage to be hard to reach, San … Read more
The Vintage News Dec 3, 2017 E.L. Hamilton Photo:dee & tula monstah CC By 2.0 It is hard to believe today, when more women run than men. But until 1972, women were prohibited to run the Boston Marathon—the oldest and most prestigious marathon (26.2 miles) in the United States. In 1967, Kathrine Switzer managed to get … Read more
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 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
The Vintage News Dec 23, 2017 Magda Origjanska The State Hermitage Museum in Russia’s Saint Petersburg, one of the most famous art museums in the world, has a staff including numerous specialists in sculpture, history, painting, but also, believe it or not, a special kind of four-legged specialists that work under the Jordan Staircase in the … Read more
