Julie Wills “The Hunt”
Among the many charges leveled at Marie Antoinette at the cusp of the French Revolution was that she callously parodied the hardships of peasant life. The queen did indeed use state funds to erect a mock peasant village, complete with a fully operational farm, on Versailles property. Marie Antoinette’s most bitter critics spread rumors that […]
Dolores Wilber + Sarah Wilber’s Walking Tour
On the corner of Ashland and Division, inside that one CVS couched within a historic bank building, a few strides in and many feet above the Division street entrance, hovers a lone Spongebob Squarepants balloon, looking diminutive and out-of-place against the building’s Classical Revival-style ceiling. It’s the kind of detail only someone intimately familiar with […]