JAMIE’S PLACE FOR STUFF

A Stroll Though Memory, Time and Politics With Stops Along The Way

Category: Art

  • My Neck of the Woods – What In The Sam Hill?

    Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,A medley of extemporanea;And love is a thing that can never go wrong,And I am Marie of Romania.–Dorothy Parker What possible connection could there be between a road builder, a Follies Bergere dancer, a Romanian Queen, a sugar heiress, Stonehenge, and a one of a kind art collection? What in the Sam Hill may have been a polite persons way of avoiding the word “hell” in the 1800s, but it was also the name of a legendary road builder. The first paved road in the Northwest United States wasn’t built to reach a…

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