Archive for 'December,2011'
This Week in History: A Visit from St. Nicholas
On December 23rd, 1823, the poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas” was published anonymously in the Troy, NY Sentinel. The tales in the Stories from the Golden Age conjure up a time when life, despite its [...]
This Week In History: The Birth of Motorized Flight
December 14th of 1903 was a day that soared in aviation history: on that day, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wilbur and Orville Wright tested for the first time their powered, heavier-than-air vehicle in flight. The [...]
This Week in History: A Rodeo Round-Up
While rodeos as competition are far older than the modern “circuit” we know now, with clowns and prizes and televised events, the “Super Bowl” of rodeos had its inception in the founding, in 1936, of the [...]
A Golden Age Christmas
Many of the tales in the Stories from the Golden Age collection take place in New York City, including The Tramp, our latest featured title. New York is a city that has inspired countless TV shows, books, [...]
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