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...
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....