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The Joy of Shoes
We wear our hearts on our soles. "Shoes are the best indicator of how people are feeling," says June Swann, a shoe historian based in Northampton, England. To hear Swann tell it, you can chart the rise and ...
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Best Men’s Stylish Travel Shoes for a European Vacation
We have two popular posts about women’s travel shoes here— but the question we get asked all the time is what about travel shoes for men? Men arguably have a more difficult task when seeking stylish shoes for t...
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Exploring Beth Levine’s High-Fashion Footwear at the Long Island Museum
A shoe lover’s paradise, an exhibition now on display at the Long Island Museum in Stony Brook presents a wide variety of stylish shoes and boots as works of art. In the show, “Beth Levine: The First Lady o...
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A Quiet Swiss Town’s Unlikely Treasure: Shoes
ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT collections of footwear in Europe — and arguably the world — is not housed in a grand museum in Rome or Paris but in a remote 18th-century manor high north of the Swiss Alps owned ...
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Using High Heels for Self-Defense
On a recent rainy evening, about 30 women, most wearing high heels, gathered in a Midtown Manhattan rehearsal space and engaged in a series of brisk maneuvers: hammer fists, elbowing out of chokeholds, fierce k...
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The Magic of Seeds
It’s no surprise that Jack (of fairy tale fame) was traded “magic” seeds for his cow. By their very nature, seeds are magical. They’ve laid dormant, just waiting for the right conditions to come along so th...
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Using Flower Color Effectively
Few topics are as interesting as color, and few things affect the overall look of a garden as much as color. Used effectively, color can create a feeling of calm, graciousness, spaciousness, excitement, or ...
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Growing Herbs
To grow this tender annual from seed, sow in flats about 6 weeks before last frost. Sow seeds and cover with the growing medium to about twice the depth of the seed. Keep soil at 70-72 degrees F, and keep m...
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A Child’s Garden – a Special Place to Grow
“What’s best for the environment?” is often asked these days. Well, what’s best for the environment is teaching our children respect and concern for nature. One way to start this training early, and have so...
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Resolutions for Gardeners
A new year typically brings about resolutions right? Be they for losing weight, being more organized or simply an overall "being better" wish, resolutions are good goals to have.
Gardeners are no excepti...