Falling In
I know you can’t force a miracle, an epiphany. They need to sneak up on you when you least expect it.
I know you can’t force a miracle, an epiphany. They need to sneak up on you when you least expect it.
You’d never guess by looking at it, but Kurt Ard’s 1958 cover for the Post has a somewhat scandalous backstory.
My grandfather told me once that when you get old enough, the universe gives you red spots, to celebrate your years, alive, on earth. A kind of skin confetti.
Occupation: Artist, illustrator, portraitist, Advertising copywriter, Mechanical Designer Schools: National Academy of Design in New York City, The Art Students’ League in New York City Studio Work: Charles E. Cooper Studio Art Genre/Grouping: American Art, Americana, Realism Marital Status: Divorced; Remarried to Casey Hughes; 5 daughters total (2 step-daughters) Where is his art now? Has […]
An encounter with an old crush brings surprising revelations about the end of a marriage.
A baseball glove triggers memories of youth.
A recent Pew survey shows at least one third of Americans believe their ideological opponents pose a “threat to the nation’s well-being.” Troubling as this might be, we have seen far worse.
Magazines are time capsules, reflecting the mood and ideas of short moments in history. But how accurate is that reflection?
In the 1920s flapper era of parties and glamour, no Saturday Evening Post artist covered the period of graceful elegance like Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle. Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, on November 11, 1876, Pyle had a slow-building rise to fame that spanned many decades between her art studies and her working years as an artist.
At the height of his popularity, William F. Cody was probably the most recognized man on earth, and he became the idol of a generation through thousands of appearances in his own extravaganza: Buffalo Bill’s Wild West.
‘The monkey trials’ reached a fervor of national attention in April 1925, but for a man so hated and vilified during the trial, John Scopes strangely disappeared into obscurity immediately after the verdict.
How a side trip to a tiny Irish village helped an American couple get reacquainted.
How important is a sense of place? In this moving essay, best-selling author Hugh Delehanty describes how his misadventures as young man in Boston helped transform him into a writer.
After three-quarters of a century, the healing touch of undisturbed nature has restored this mountain range’s power to inspire.
Just how important is a change in the rules of baseball?
Can you alter a tradition without ruining what you were trying to preserve?
Child Stars are nothing new. They say music is the universal language, and as long as music has been around, kids have understood its appeal as well as anyone. Still, understanding is different from actually creating music. Some kids really were born to play. All of these stars were drawn to music at a young […]