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Beware the Ides of March?

by Kate Dolan | Mar 15, 2012 | Holidays, Latest Posts, Living History, Romans

Today, March 15 is referred to as the Ides of March. Should we “beware” of the day? Is it like some super-annual Friday the 13th, full of bad luck? Should we run away from black cats and avoid walking under ladders? After all, Julius Caesar did not heed...

What day is it?

by Kate Dolan | Sep 6, 2011 | Articles, Colonial America, Latest Posts, Living History

September 6 – if you’d been alive on this date in 1752, it would be have been September 14. And so would yesterday and tomorrow and, well, most of next week, really. September was a really messed up month in 1752, at least for Protestants. Let me back up a bit....

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