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Buddha, The Teacher
Siddhartha Gautama was raised in great luxury and shielded from religion and human suffering. He had little experience of the world outside the walls of his palaces. During a ride along the countryside; Siddhartha Gautama encountered his first experiences with old age, disease and death. He also encountered a man that had renounced the world….
“Waar het om draait” – “What it spins about” (Dutch idiom)
Windmills enabled farmable land in the Netherlands. They were used to divert water away from swamps and marshes. Windmills were used to maintain more low lying land for farming. Windmills were also a source of milling grains. In the Netherlands, windmills were used to send messages of grief or joy by attaching and adjusting sails…
Innocent Looking Hatpins
Victorian Hat Pins and holder @ Time’s Tin Cup ! Hatpins were originally designed to be used in pairs to fasten a women’s hat to her hair. But a hatpin might just be the deadliest fashion accessory in history. Although hatpins are ornamental, they have a sharp point for fastening. Hats grew in fashion during…
Archiving Dreams
From hieroglyphs to motion pictures. Visual art has captured simulations that communicate ideas, stories perceptions, feelings, and beauty. Vintage cameras are a piece of this history. They highlight the evolution of this technology from the magic lantern to sound on film. Staff with film equipment and tape reels in the Audio Visual Services Department at…
The Pack Basket
The pack basket has withstood the test of time. It has been in use since 900 B.C. and is still loved today by trappers, hunters and foragers. It is not just outdoorsmen that make the pack basket a tool of choice. Some very creative moms find the pack basket a tool of choice for laundry…
The Lucky Cat
No one can quite agree as to how the first Maneki Neko came to be. The Lucky Cat, with it’s origins in the Edo period of Japan has become popular in in China and Vietnam. One of the legends of the Maneki Neko tells the tale of a wealthy man who took shelter from a…
Bonnie Scotland
Ask Laurel to show you this book on Facebook live by Time’s Tin Cup ! Henry Vollam Morton (H.V. Morton) was a pioneering travel writer from Lancashire, England. He wrote many books on his travels; including those on London, Great Britain and the Holy Land. He was also a journalist with the Daily Express. Not…
Ahoy!
Hello! Ahoy? The first documented use of “hello” was in 1827. But Hello wasn’t used in the form of a greeting. Hello was actually an expression of surprise; such as, “Hello, what do we have here?!” or; as in, “Hello, what do you think you’re doing?!” Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876. A…
Make Tea Time an Enchanted Moment
The word “fairy” derives from the Latin word fata, which means “fate”. As well as the Old French word faerie, which means “enchantment”. The earliest writings of fairies are by Gervase of Tilbury, a 12th-century English scholar. He compiled a collection of unexplained marvels of the natural world. This compilation incorporated stories of enchanted places…