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 In late September in these latitudes a lovely white and yellow aster or daisy with stiff white ray petals surrounding a yellow center is of...

  New Utrecht was a Dutch colonial settlement on Long Island, founded in 1657 and named for a Dutch city .  It developed as a rural, farming...

 It was a mixed day of temperatures…cool enough this morning for my first fire in the breakfast room fireplace…but hot enough in the late af...

THE AGE OF DISCOVERY   The 16 th  and 17 th  centuries were times of extensive discovery and exploration. Columbus and the Spanish made the ...