Portrait of Morgan seated with his granddaughter Mabel Satterlee, 1906. (Photo: Muller Ury.com) In 1900, financier J P Morgan bought 117 acres in Maine, including Sand Beach and Great Head, as a wedding gift for his daughter Louisa. The land is now part of Acadia National Park.The land around Great Head and Sand Beach was…

Robert Moses at the placing of final steel, Fire Island Inlet Bridge 1962. A powerful nor’easter hit the eastern coast of the United States in March 1962. The storm destroyed dunes, swept nearly 100 homes into the Atlantic Ocean, and cut through the narrow barrier island off Long Island’s south shore. The storm, known as…

At first glance, it sounds like a stunt, but in central London, visitors are being invited to do something surprisingly rooted in human history: taste soil. The Museum of Edible Earth, currently on display at Somerset House, brings together edible earth samples from across the globe and turns them into a sensory, educational experience. Far…

New Green Card recipients claimed they did not receive the ‘Welcome to the United States’ guidebook along with their Green Card from the USCIS. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) appears to have stopped including its printed “Welcome to the United States: A Guide for New Immigrants” with newly issued green cards, according to…

TOI correspondent from Washington: For a country whose Constitution famously avoids mentioning Jesus Christ even once, America is suddenly looking suspiciously like it is auditioning for a biblical reboot.Thousands of cheering conservatives gathered on the Capital’s National Mall on Sunday for “Rededicate 250,” an eight-hour, White House-backed prayer jamboree critics described as a giant Big…