Living Monsters & Curiosities
New York colonists enjoyed traveling exhibits the world had never seen before.
New York colonists enjoyed traveling exhibits the world had never seen before.
Back in the 18th century, New Yorkers were on a dissipated mission. Think you could keep up?
There was a severe shortage of able night-watchmen, constables, sheriffs, jail-keepers, and justices of the peace in 18th century New York.
The pleasure gardens of early New York were escapes from the bustle of the growing town.
Over three hundred years ago, a rippling brook wended down the lane. It’s now Chinatown.
Once upon a time, a forested countryside expanded into a lush valley that emptied into a sizable and deep freshwater pond fed by underground springs, emptying into salt marshes that would one day become meadows, reaching all the way to the Hudson River.
Quarantines are nothing new in America. Liberty Island in New York Bay, once called Bedloe’s Island, has a long history as a quarantine station.
Prior to 1765, a secret society composed of a diverse, radical group of sailors in the American colonies formed. They called themselves the Sons of Neptune.
The British threaten to attack the fictionalized town of Turtle Bay in A Widow’s Guide to Scandal (coming July 2020). This was based on the very real attack on Fairfield, Connecticut by the British in 1779.
There is some debate over the genesis of the bagel. It mostly depends on how one defines a bagel. By ingredients? Shape? Country of origin?