February 2015 – Gardens to Gables

February 23, 2015

The Victorians Remake the Elizabethan Age at Charlecote Park (this post originally appeared on the Smitten by Britain website) I am a list maker. I am also a loser of lists I have made, which means I frequently bite my lip in frustration and fumble to recreate said list, but that’s another story. Although I (read more)

Category: England

February 20, 2015

All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players… Architecture has long served as a platform for status and self-expression – even seemingly humble dwellings (vernacular architecture) reveal layers of information about where the builders and inhabitants came from, how they used the rooms in their house, and even how trendy (read more)

Categories: Historic Preservation, Ohio architecture, Other Places, Theaters

Tags: #CincinnatiOH, #cincinnnati, #historiccinema, #overtherhine, #theater

February 17, 2015

The allure of a snow day, especially in the Bluegrass where snowfall is fickle and fleeting, doesn’t subside with adulthood. Granted, my childhood experience of substantial snowfall was tempered by the impact the winter wonderland would have on the cattle, and if a late winter snow, the newborn calves. Feeding the cattle became even more (read more)

Categories: Bluegrass, Farming

Tags: Colonial Williamsburg, comfort food, hot brown, Kentucky, snow, snow day

February, 2015

The Victorians Tackle the Elizabethans

Cincinnati’s Metropolitan/State Theater

Snow Days and Comfort Food

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