by Kate Dolan | Aug 1, 2026 | Kate Dolan, Latest Posts, Living History, Romans, Servants, Uncategorized
Have you ever seen a colonial American house with fake windows? Or a building with very few windows? You may be told that people did that to avoid the British window tax. That’s not accurate, but when you learn about the creative ways that governments have tried to...
by Kate Dolan | May 31, 2026 | 19th Century America, Camping with History, Colonial America, Kate Dolan, Latest Posts, Living History, Travel
This was our fourth stay at this park, and I was determined I wasn’t going to write about history at this one. It’s not one of Florida’s older parks, and the only historical sites I remembered were the remains of the homestead of a cattle driver from...
by Kate Dolan | Jan 31, 2026 | Kate Dolan, Latest Posts, Living History, Romans
We all know that the Egyptians mummified their kings and invested quite a bit of money and time in the process. What I didn’t know, until I saw an exhibit at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore recently, is that the Egyptians also mummified millions of animals with...
by Kate Dolan | Aug 3, 2025 | Kate Dolan, Latest Posts, Tiki, Travel
The fictitious world of tiki became my paradise at young age. Some of my earliest happy memories involve thatched umbrellas waving in a warm breeze, colored lights flickering on cocktail tables in a darkened room, and lots of maraschino cherries on a fanciful plastic...
by Kate Dolan | Jul 31, 2023 | 19th Century America, Colonial America, Kate Dolan, Latest Posts, Living History, Regency
When representatives of the British colonies signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776, Benjamin Franklin is reported to have joked “we must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.” But despite the humor, the threat was real. Signing...
by Kate Dolan | Jun 30, 2023 | 19th Century America, Articles, Kate Dolan, Latest Posts, Living History, Travel
Today people come to the Smoky Mountains in East Tennessee and Western North Carolina to enjoy the rugged beauty and, in a few places, an obscene amount of tourist trap attractions. It is easy to imagine the days when the people who lived in the hills were isolated...
