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coloradohistoricnewspapers.org Had it up to here with today’s bad news? Colorado’s Historic Newspaper Collection – a must-read for history buffs – will fill you in on yesterday’s. A project of the Colorado State Library and the Colorado Historical Society, it contains a database of scanned clippings from 86 newspapers published from 1859 to 1923. The searches can be a little slow, but the results are fascinating.
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“Martha’s Baking Favorites” Cookbooks can give you recipes, but technique is best learned by watching. This DVD is Martha Stewart at her very best, and her my-way-or-
the-highway approach to icing, layering and rolling out dough may inspire you to culinary greatness. The biggest surprise: The assemblage of bloopers is funny, revealing a lighter side of the woman who seems to take it all so seriously.
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“The Weather and a Place to Live” Steven B. Smith’s collection of photographs of the suburban West is a revealing black-and-white look at the highs and (mostly) lows of development on this side of the country. The shots, stunning and stark, are a somber reminder of what we gave up to gain affordable housing beyond big-city borders. Troubling, yet beautiful in a way that perhaps only Westerners might understand.
– Ray Mark Rinaldi
