Under the Gables

Katharine Hepburn as Alice Adams. Alice had to wear a made-over organdy dress and walked all over the city to gather violets for her bouquet...

The Sick Child by Gabriel Metsu, c. 1664 I am pleased to post a guest article by a friend and art historian, Nora Hamerman. I think the bac...

Victorian home with a sleeping porch on the second floor. Usually built off a bedroom, the sleeping porch was screened in on three sides for...

This video was shown to my daughter's pediatric nursing class at the University of Pennsylvania to highlight the way in which medicine i...

Flowers in a Vase by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1866

Perching before one's admirers (see Gentle Julia ): Summer Girl by Robert Lewis Reid, 1896 Resting and contemplating at the end of the ...

Lilies by Childe Hassam, 1910 The Stone Diaries by the Canadian author, Carol Shields, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 and tells the life st...