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In Édouard Bisson’s “A Question to the Cards” (1889), we find a different scene entirely. Two wealthy, fashionable young women, surrounded by rich furnishings, appear to be reading a deck of cards. Here, cartomancy has become a fashionable…

Fourteen years after 9/11, Truthers, as they’ve been pejoratively labeled since 2001, have not gone away. And odds are, you probably know one.

An article about the importance of libraries to restore and maintain culture.

Good Times apologizes for TanaCon

This past year, one of the graduating campers left this rock at the camp chapel. On the back, she wrote: “Dear CJM, You are my home. I’m 16 this year so I have to go. Thank you for the memories. I love you.” We love our campers and the memories…

The story of If Winter Comes focuses on Mark Sabre and his relationship with his wife. The story of the book, though is not what most immediately catches the eye, but rather what someone had written in the book. On one of the first few pages of the…

"Polar Expedition" is made from drawings taken by Beechey after a 40 mile expedition through the polar ice, finally arriving at clear water. The contrast of the blue water and the near white ice formations gave the drawings a cutting edge against the…

One of the common forms of fortune telling from Victorian England was cartomancy, involving the assignment of emotions or conditions to card values. Cards would be drawn for customers or picked randomly by them. There were various techniques of card…