May 31, 2018 George Winston Princess Elizabeth as Mechanic and Driver. Photo Credit. © IWM It wasn’t unusual to see a woman in a military uniform in England in 1945. As early as 1939, Time magazine ran a cover story that reported on British women in World War II. Thousands of women took on roles usually … Read more
May 31, 2018 George Winston Beginning in 1962 and continuing until 1971, the United States military, with the approval of President John F. Kennedy, sprayed over twenty million gallons of herbicide over more than four and a half million acres in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia in order to defoliate the jungle and reduce the areas available … Read more
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
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
