Fritz Eichenberg’s Art of Human Connection
A master printmaker defended the emotional power of representational art in an increasingly mechanized world.
“Telling the Bees”
In nineteenth-century New England, it was held to be essential to whisper to beehives of a loved one’s death.
Benjamin Lay: The Radical “Quaker Comet”
Benjamin Lay was a radical abolitionist who helped turn the Quakers from slave-holders to leaders of the anti-slavery movement.