This is the story of the party that changed the city’s society forever. The party in question was the Vanderbilt Costume Ball, which took place on March 26, 1883, and cost around $250,000, the equivalent of about $7.3 million today. It took place at…
“Settling St. Malo,” a documentary film by UL Lafayette’s Dr. Randy Gonzales, captures a time when Louisiana had the largest Filipino population in the U.S., including in the tiny coastal fishing village of the film’s title. It will be…
Analysis: Several Irish-born people helped the French Resistance, including Samuel Beckett, Janie McCarthy, Mary Elmes and Maureen O'Sullivan From RTÉ Radio 1's Oliver Callan Show, Irish people in WW2 honoured in new exhibition Samuel Beckett moved to Paris in October 1937 and…
Wednesday, Sept. Oct. 22, 1986 Drug defendants visit courts soon Following the Sept. 25 countywide drug arrests made by several law enforcement agencies, all but one of those arrested and arraigned have pleaded innocent to their charges. The next steps in the court…
From century-old Craftsman homes to vegan fantasy bars, dive bars, and a tiki room built for exactly two people, this is one of San Diego’s great little neighborhoods You may not realize it, but Balboa Park is bigger than Central…
Michelle Young (she/her) is a Venezuelan-Canadian writer and editor, currently managing and editing The Peak’s Opinion section. Her poetry has appeared in amberflora magazine. She is humbly located on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish),…
From lavish balls to romantic scandals, discover the true stories and historical figures that inspired The Gilded Age. From extravagant balls to New York scandals, the true stories behind The Gilded Age I never really gave much thought to the…
A Clare-based oral history project is looking for volunteers to record people’s stories and recollections of life in Ireland’s newest town. Cuimhneamh an Chláir (Clare Memories) is an independent voluntary group, founded in 2009, with the aim of recording the people…
‘The Fallen’ by Louise Brangan, an Irish academic based in Edinburgh, was published earlier this year. In her introduction, the author tells us that she “wanted to write the history of the Magdalene Laundries from the perspective of the women…
Jeremy Gendelman sat his paternal grandfather down at their family’s Denver kitchen table in 2008, a camcorder trained on him, and asked a single question. “Where were you born?” Yakov “Yasha” Gendelman didn’t stop talking for three hours. “I was born…
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