by David L. Witt | Aug 9, 2023 | Curator's Notes
Edinburgh Castle: JÖrg Angeli on unsplash.com If I have my geography even partially figured out, then, that part of Scotland bordering the North Sea, East Lothian, has been assigned a number of names: The Kingdom of Gododdin in the 500s (a Brittonic people of ancient...
by David L. Witt | Aug 9, 2023 | Curator's Notes
gray castle beside river by Mathias Reding on unsplash.com Historians fantasize about getting their favorite characters from history into a room where they (the historians) can discuss with the characters (now dead people) what really happened way back when. Here are...
by David L. Witt | Jul 8, 2023 | Seton Annotated Publications
Illustration from Two Little Savages For all that Seton has been largely forgotten by the general public, a small cadre of scholars and journalists continue to chart his legacy. While his nature-based work is usually viewed favorably, scholars who come out of Native...
by David L. Witt | Jun 15, 2023 | Curator's Notes
Sunburst and Seton Castle, New Mexico Where better to start the Saga of the Seton family than in the mists of time? And what better place for a historian to get lost than in the mists? As in introduction to the mists, try Wikipedia and other on-line sources where the...
by David L. Witt | Apr 4, 2023 | Guest Writers
Cover Art, Quartier Latin, Vol II January 1897 No. 6, Compiled monthly in Paris and printed and published by llifee & Son, of London, #30/p.176, p. 177 One of my worthy correspondents (more worthy than me since he, not I, discovered this little gem of a review)...
