- Original recording of John Steinbeck reading his short story “Johnny Bear”
One thing that I really like to do on this site is hunt down original recordings of Lost Generation authors reading their own work. It wasn’t until I started this blog that I realized I had never heard any of these authors in their own voice. And so today here’s a great recording of John
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- Ray Bradbury tries to save Ernest Hemingway
Well, with Christmas now behind us, it’s time to return to our regular posts about the Lost Generation. While listening to a Ray Bradbury short story collection I came across a very interesting one involving Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. My physical issues often make it very uncomfortable to hold a book for long
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- Christmas in the 1920s: The Music
With Christmas almost here I realized I never highlighted that most important part of any ambience – the music! And music is something the 1920s was certainly not devoid of. It wasn’t called the Jazz Age for nothing! So today, let’s listen to some classic Christmas music from that time period. Gather the kids around
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- 1920s Inspired Women’s Holiday Party Shopping Guide
Hello everyone, this is my first time posting to this site so I thought I would take a second to introduce myself. My name is Cori and I’m Gregory’s fiancée. He has kindly invited me to start doing a couple post every now and then on here about the aspect of the 1920s that is
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- Christmas in the 1920s: Birth of the National Christmas Tree
Back in the early 2000s when I was going to school at American University in Washington D.C., I had the pleasure of getting to go to see the lighting of the National Christmas tree. I always loved Christmas, but up until that point I didn’t actually know that there was a National Christmas tree. And
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- Christmas in the 1920s: Magazines
In a recent post I wrote about a Christmas story by Dorothy Parker titled The Christmas Magazines And the Inevitable Story of the Snowbound Train. An early piece of writing by Parker, it was published by Vanity Fair in December 1916. In it she essentially laments and belittles the sentimentality of the Christmas magazines of
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- Christmas in the 1920s: Christmas Seals
Something that I came across while researching Christmas in the 1920s was the use of Christmas seals. Christmas seals are labels placed on the mail during Christmas to raise money for charity. They look like postage stamps, but have no value and so have been called a “cinderella stamp.” They began in Denmark in 1904
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- A 1920s Christmas in photos
Happy holidays everyone! Well this year is certainly different than every other one that I’ve ever experienced, I’m just glad to be here and able to celebrate right now. Since this website is dedicated to the Lost Generation who came of age with WWI and the roaring 20s, I thought we’d do a series of
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One thing that I really like to do on this site is hunt down original recordings of Lost Generation authors reading their own work. It wasn’t until I started this blog that I realized I had never heard any of these authors in their own voice. And so today here’s a great recording of JohnContinue reading “Original recording of John Steinbeck reading his short story “Johnny Bear””
Well, with Christmas now behind us, it’s time to return to our regular posts about the Lost Generation. While listening to a Ray Bradbury short story collection I came across a very interesting one involving Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. My physical issues often make it very uncomfortable to hold a book for longContinue reading “Ray Bradbury tries to save Ernest Hemingway”
With Christmas almost here I realized I never highlighted that most important part of any ambience – the music! And music is something the 1920s was certainly not devoid of. It wasn’t called the Jazz Age for nothing! So today, let’s listen to some classic Christmas music from that time period. Gather the kids aroundContinue reading “Christmas in the 1920s: The Music”
Hello everyone, this is my first time posting to this site so I thought I would take a second to introduce myself. My name is Cori and I’m Gregory’s fiancée. He has kindly invited me to start doing a couple post every now and then on here about the aspect of the 1920s that isContinue reading “1920s Inspired Women’s Holiday Party Shopping Guide”
Back in the early 2000s when I was going to school at American University in Washington D.C., I had the pleasure of getting to go to see the lighting of the National Christmas tree. I always loved Christmas, but up until that point I didn’t actually know that there was a National Christmas tree. AndContinue reading “Christmas in the 1920s: Birth of the National Christmas Tree”
In a recent post I wrote about a Christmas story by Dorothy Parker titled The Christmas Magazines And the Inevitable Story of the Snowbound Train. An early piece of writing by Parker, it was published by Vanity Fair in December 1916. In it she essentially laments and belittles the sentimentality of the Christmas magazines ofContinue reading “Christmas in the 1920s: Magazines”
Something that I came across while researching Christmas in the 1920s was the use of Christmas seals. Christmas seals are labels placed on the mail during Christmas to raise money for charity. They look like postage stamps, but have no value and so have been called a “cinderella stamp.” They began in Denmark in 1904Continue reading “Christmas in the 1920s: Christmas Seals”
Happy holidays everyone! Well this year is certainly different than every other one that I’ve ever experienced, I’m just glad to be here and able to celebrate right now. Since this website is dedicated to the Lost Generation who came of age with WWI and the roaring 20s, I thought we’d do a series ofContinue reading “A 1920s Christmas in photos”