Notes From My Easel

In the final months of Eaton’s demise the department store chain adopted a policy that was referred to as the ‘Slow Close’.  Needing every sale that could be made they were reluctant to usher out shoppers the minute the store was closed.  Instead they would ring off some of the cash registers and lock just one [...]

From the earliest humble dwelling to the famous line uttered by Dorothy in ‘The Wizard of Oz’, the feeling is the same as you walk in the door:  “There’s no place like home.” During the 19th century the art of house portraiture thrived as merchants and land owners prospered, their wealth reflected through the building of [...]