Happy Halloween! Many scholars believe that Halloween originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, which celebrated the end of the harvest season and marked the beginning of winter. During Samhain it was thought that the boundary between this world and the...
Fossils are the remains or traces of plants and animals that lived long ago. This can include anything from an enormous dinosaur skeleton to the impression of delicate ferns. Studying these fossils allow us to trace the history of the earth and the evolution of...
Blue and Gold by Richard Blossom Farley: In this painting, a dark-haired woman with a flower in her hair reclines slightly on a chair. She wears a blue dress and looks away from the viewer. Farley specialized in portraits, such as this one, with the suggestion of...
