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GOOD FOLK ART has a resonance that seems timeless and without a place—except in our imaginations. The pure and childlike simplicity (...

USHERING IN the holiday season is Halloween. Alongside the shelves of the ever enlarging Halloween merchandise available every October, ...

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THE PINK ROSE has become a supernatural symbol of my mother since her death. ...

These are the days when birds come back,  A very few, a bird or two, To take a backward look. These are the days when skies put on The ...

IMAGINING the first holiday tree, it must have been the lighted ones that really touched the primal spirit of our collective psyche. Lik...