• Street Discovery Solves Sorolla Painting Mystery

    Street Discovery Solves Sorolla Painting Mystery
     It’s one thing to inadvertently buy a valuable painting at a thrift store. Picking one up in the street is another degree of luck entirely. As surprising as it sounds, the second happened to Andrés Hurtado of Murcia, Spain, while he was visiting Seville with his family on the weekend. He saw a painting lying in the street: a peaceful beach scene with boats in the distance and sunlight reflecting off the water.Hurtado said that the gilded frame was what caught his attention. As
  • My Favorite Flag: The True Centennial Banner

    My Favorite Flag: The True Centennial Banner
    37-star silk flag, July 4, 1867 to July 3, 1877.Semiquincentennial. Try saying it three times fast—I can’t, so I’ll stick with “250th anniversary.” As we celebrate our semi… (well, you know the word), we recall that one of the most enduring symbols of our nation is our flag, that beautiful, bold, red, white, and blue banner that flies from countless flagpoles across the country.My earliest memory of our nation’s flag dates back to the mid-1960s, when I

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