In the weeks before Lent, their branches begin to glisten in the late winter sunlight. The parades begin, and day after day, the beads make their landing, tangling themselves—purple, green, and golden ...
Mardi Gras or Fat Tuesday is synonymous with New Orleans, but parades and other events are found throughout the US Gulf Coast. Originally a way to celebrate with rich, fatty foods on the day before ...
French and Chinese blue glass, Dutch layered glass, Baltic amber: roughly 70,000 beads manufactured all over the world have been excavated at one of the Spanish empire's remotest outposts, the Santa ...