A Sparkling Vintage Life

Retro Recipe Wednesday: Palm Beach Salad

In the 1920s, Florida was hot in more ways than one. Around the turn of the century, a developer named Henry Flagler had worked tirelessly to position Florida, and Palm Beach in particular, as a winter playground for the rich and famous. After World War I, the middle...

Sunday Serenade: Taps

Originally called Decoration Day, Memorial Day was started in 1868 to honor soldiers who had died in the American Civil War. While many towns and cities held their own remembrances, General John Logan, National Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, was the...

Retro Recipe Wednesday: Iced Tea

Monday, when I started working on this post, was a perfect iced-tea day in northern Idaho: hot, sunny, summery. Today, not so much, as we’re experiencing cold and rain–“March: The Sequel.” Still, I’m forging ahead with my iced-tea post...