My write-up of Dave Eggers’ The Parade is up at The Millions. Read it here. The plot of the book is deceptively simple: a guy…
Streets paved with stone are generally called “cobblestone” streets. But they’re not always made of cobblestone. “Cobbles” are rounded stones worn smooth by water. “Belgian block”…
Imagine a fireplace and live music on a passenger train…. In many ways, life in the Civil War era must have been, quite simply, a…
An 1865 picture of Petersburg shows a delightful hodgepodge of paving and other details of a streetscape in a 19th century small American city. All…