Category Archives: history and literature

Canadian Children’s Primer from 1920

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Real World Vampirism

Posted on December 1, 2012 by

Youth: supple and strong.  Most of us would agree these are characteristics between childhood and maturity. But what happens when youth withers and dies? For some in pre-industrial society, the answer was vampirism. Abraham Stoker, the famous Irish author of … Continue reading →

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A New Turn for the Stop Sign

Posted on April 21, 2012 by

If you come to a red octagonal sign standing on a post by the side of a road, chances are you will know what to do without even knowing the language. The stop sign is an international symbol.  How did … Continue reading →

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The Jester: A Historical Political Commentator and Cupid

Posted on April 6, 2012 by

The Jester was the entertainer of the monarchy: the one who could say what others feared saying. A foil for the aristocracy, he would carry a false scepter in his hands called a bauble that was covered in bells or … Continue reading →

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The Chapel of the Bones: Remembering Death

Posted on March 18, 2012 by

With one glance at a photo, you would imagine that the space was created by a morbid tyrant aristocrat in centuries past; a vaulted space, lined ceiling to floor in skeletons that are used as adornment. A man and an … Continue reading →

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