Come New Years Eve day in Peru, you’ll find families dressed in yellow as they bedeck their houses with yellow flowers, streamers, confetti. Yellow is said to be the colour of good luck. You might also find Peruvians placing three potatoes in reach, but out of sight. Perhaps under a
Though the PNE’s amusement park opened in 1910, it didn’t get its first name until 1926: ‘Happy Land.’ Located near the Hastings Track, Happy Land’s rides, such as the Giant Dipper, battled for space with new stretches of racetrack. When Happy Land moved to its current, bigger site in 1958, it
To all who are celebrating today: Merry Christmas! A particularly warm greeting to those who are spending their 2020 holiday season away from their loved ones. Here’s to good health and goodwill in 2021. To help us ring in the day is the brilliant artwork of William H. Johnson, born
The holidays are altogether different in 2020. Here is some beautiful bounty to mark feasts with loved ones – those we have enjoyed in the past and those we can look forward to in the future. . Banquet Still Life with self-portrait of the artist in the silver jug Abraham van Beyeren 1655