Stories by samclemens

The Death of Pennsylvania’s Forgotten Funeral Pie

The First Chinese Restaurant in America Has a Savory–and Unsavory–History

A history of the blurb, every author’s best friend

Living closer together

The life and sketchy business practices of Crazy Eddie

Tom Kromer, Appalachia’s Forgotten Modernist

A Caribbean ‘Cow’ Tooth Could Solve the Mystery of the Chincoteague Ponies

The Artist Who Hooked British Rock Royalty on Her Revolutionary Crochet (2021)

Who Built the First Electric Rock 'N' Roll Guitar? (2019)

Indiana Pi Bill

World’s fairs acted as showcases for American cocktail ingenuity

The monkeys and parrots caught up in the California gold rush

A Whale of a Story

We All Scream for Ice Cream (2018)

The Rise and Fall of the Manufactured Home – Part I

When Coal First Arrived, Americans Said ‘No Thanks’

The Game Monopologs (1960)

How TS Eliot Found Happiness

1942–1944 Musicians' Strike

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