CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD

The dining hall at Williams College's dormitory, Mission Park, whose name is associated with the birth of U.S. foreign Christian missions...

The Celtic knot represents the three forces of nature: water, fire and earth. The single line is said to signify the oneness of the...

Isabel Gomes Sarmento on her 111th birthday in 2021 Isabel Gomes Sarmento, the oldest known person in Portugal, died at age 112 in a...

CHAPTER 2 Feale’s face shone in a shaft of morning light rushing through open wooden shutters at the front of the two-room stone house....

Folk singer and social activist Pete Seeger: "I met her, I met all three of them that day. As a matter of fact, there is a picture taken...

The raven appears in the mythology of the Celts and many others. It often represents prophecy and insight, connecting the material world...

Life may be absurd, but in Belize and the Caribbean, death merits communal traditions. On the ninth night after a person’s death, food,...

"The challenge is not about who they are. It's about explaining to people who they are." ...

Until he was 10, Truman Capote lived with distant and elderly cousins in rural Alabama about whom he writes in A Christmas Memory....

Harvey Keitel and Clarice Taylor in Wayne Wang’s Smoke (@ 1995 Miramax/N.D.F./Euro Space) I heard this story from Auggie Wren. Since Auggie doesn't come off too well in it, at least not as well as he'd like to, he's asked me not to use his real name. Other than that, the whole business about the lost wallet and the blind woman and the Christmas dinner is just as he told it to me. Auggie and I have known each other for close to eleven years now. He works behind the counter of

In 2020, the then-Minister of Justice Francisca Van Dunem (November 2015-March 2022) approved a National Anti-Corruption Strategy (ENAC),...

Cynthia Adina Kirkwood visiting Santa Claus at Macy’s Herald Square, New York City, circa 1961 Originally published in The New York Sun ...

Closing lines of I Saw a Jolly Hunter by Charles Causley (Illustration by Pat Marriott) Foraging through a used bookshop...

The evocative bronze symbolizes Coimbra’s paean to fado through a Portuguese guitar with the contours of a woman’s body. Lines from fado...

The Tower, XVI in the tarot card deck, is a solid structure. However, it has been built on shaky foundations representing false premises....

Two steps lead up to an unpartitioned cell. Behind draped white gauzy material and lit by a footlight, two ropes hang from the ceiling three times the height of a person. The image is powerful and awful. It is as chilling as the stone building permeated by the smell of must. Each prison cell held four, five or more. Each prisoner received a pitcher of water for eight days and another for urine along with a chamber pot. Rats ran amuck. The prison treatment etched itself on ev

“Port Royal,” Adrian said, immediately. “What! Not Charles Town,” Edward asked. The Pink House, the oldest stone building in Charleston,...

Adrian, Trevor and Edward shouldered their way to the front of the mourners. They stood to the right of the bodies individually wrapped...

“The interior of Portugal is a treasure of landscapes to discover and rediscover," said Ana Abrunhosa, Minister of Territorial Cohesion,...

The two men were wrapped in a final embrace, their swollen faces barely recognizable and dripping in bright, red blood. Passers-by had...