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#MuseumMonday is The Ringling Circus Museum The portrait of Merle Evans sits in The Ringling Circus Museum in Sarasota, Florida. Evans was the circus bandleader who led “Stars and Stripes Forever” when the infamous Hartford Circus Fire of 1944 broke out. Painter Donald L. “Rusty” Rust created the portrait inContinue Reading

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Murder Is Her Hobby: The Nutshell Studies Return to Baltimore Heiress, crime novel enthusiast, and miniature hobbyist, Frances Glessner Lee (1878-1962) created 20 miniature dioramas depicting real crime scenes. Nineteen survived and were recently highlighted in the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery’s “Murder is Her Hobby: Frances Glessner LeeContinue Reading

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Grave Gardening: Conserving America’s Garden Cemeteries Prior to 1830, families buried their dead in local church cemeteries or family cemeteries. In 1831, Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts became the first modern public cemetery. It was a “garden cemetery,” whereby landscape designers incorporated water features and plants amongst the graves.Continue Reading

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#FunFactFriday April 20, 1841 Our #FunFactFriday factoid is that on this day April 20, 1841, Edgar Allen Poe published the first modern detective short story titled “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” in Graham’s magazine. This started a new genre whereby an outsider (non-police officer) solves the case. Poe calledContinue Reading