Several years ago, my oldest daughter came home from kindergarten and told me `Mam we saw the painter who cut off his ear`. I realized then that this painter is famous among different generations. How did this happen? I once had heard, he only sold a few paintings while he was alive. This year the VanContinue reading “The woman behind the success of Vincent Van Gogh.”
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Why study history?
Years ago, when I was a little girl, I loved to listen to my grandmother. She would tell me her stories, born in 1899, she came from an other century, that was like magic for me. Her stories were simple. She told me one story about red shoes that she bought from her first selfContinue reading “Why study history?”
I spy with my historical eye 