Monthly Archive: January 2019

The Artist Olive Cheritree

The materials for a full and satisfying biography of Olive Eliza Cheritree probably no longer exist. What remains are fragments, the scatterings of a creative life gone awry—a couple of photographs, a handful of...

Walden in the Catskills

The writer Henry David Thoreau is famous for a hut he built with his own hands on the shore of Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. To be more precise, he is famous for the...