by david allan van nostrand | Jul 25, 2022 | Items in the News, The Wayback Machine
Snow globes are transparent spheres of glass or plastic filled with a clear liquid and enclosing a miniaturized scene. Paperweights, ornaments, souvenirs and collector’s items, snow globes are little worlds that sit in the palm of your hand. Shaking the sphere...
by david allan van nostrand | Jul 18, 2022 | Americana, Point of view, The Wayback Machine
Amos ’n’ Andy was one of the most controversial and polarizing shows in the history of the United States. television. History professor Joshua K. Wright, writing in Abernathy Magazine, asks an excellent question: Did this television series become a scapegoat for black...
by david allan van nostrand | Jul 11, 2022 | Anthropology, Case Study, Outsiders
Not many people know that Trinidad is closer to Venezuela (6 miles) than it is to Tobago (20 miles). Just 1,800 square miles, Trinidad is smaller than Rhode Island, but nearly twenty times the size of Tobago, a little squirt of an island. More than a million people...
by david allan van nostrand | Jul 4, 2022 | Americana, Marketing, The Wayback Machine
This is the third of a three-part series about advertising characters in the United States. The first told the stories of the four greatest fictional characters to personify a brand and the second related the histories of the four greatest real-life television...
