Mental Floss
7 facts about the Scone of Stone
The Stone of Scone is one of the oldest—and the least glamorous—of the British coronation trappings, but it’s had a long and colorful history, right up to the present day.
Pennsylvania Gazette
A life's calling
Liz Theoharis C’98 co-chairs the recent revival of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign of 1968. The Presbyterian minister, social justice leader, and biblical scholar is reframing the narrative around poverty and the poor while pushing for lasting policy changes.
The Washington Post
How a 1933 photo (maybe of a dog)
sparked the Loch Ness monster craze
On a sunny Scottish Sunday, Nov. 12, 1933, Hugh Gray took his usual walk after church along Loch Ness, near Inverness. As he later told the Scottish Daily Record, he noticed “an object of considerable dimensions” emerging two or three feet out of the water not far from him.
Main Line Today
Fables of the reconstruction
After posing as appraisers of Civil War artifacts on "Antiques Roadshow," former Bryn Mawr collectibles dealer Russ Pritchard III and his accomplices bilked several individuals--and a Harrisburg museum--of thousands.
The Washington Post
This rock-and-roll song launched a musical
genre about kids, cars and crashes
“Teen Angel” became the first teen-tragedy song to reach No. 1
on the charts and paved the way for a distinct, though short-lived,
musical genre about youths dying in car or motorcycle wrecks.
Delaware Today
Behind the scenes of Winterthur's
'Antiques Roadshow' episodes
As I handed my grandmother’s aquamarine ring to "Antiques Roadshow" jewelry appraiser Kevin Zavian at the show’s first filming in Delaware at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, I wondered what he could tell me that I didn’t already know.
History
Writer and Editor
Town & Country.com
Looking back at Prince Philip’s life
Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh and husband to Queen Elizabeth for over 70 years, has died. He was 99 years old.
Samantha Drake