The Boston Massacre 1893 union square art and Main Street tableaus flicker

and Main Street tableaus flicker between Mark Twain's gabled house and the Colt armory's onion-blue dome

The Iron Sentinel of Southwest Pass — a screw-pile skeleton driven into the soft Mississippi delta where the river bleeds into the Gulf

smokestack diplomacy made flesh in epaulets and braid

Every brace and strut is plotted with the patience of an engineer who knew the reef would test him line by line

the prelate rendered with the grave composure that Gilded Age Catholicism reserved for its American shepherds

The Boston Massacre 1893 union square art and Main Street tableaus flickerThe Boston Massacre 1893 revisits the King Street bloodshed of March 1770 through a late Victorian engraver's hand redcoats arrayed in disciplined volley, colonists falling on the cobbles, the founding grievance rendered with the dramatic certainty only a century of hindsight can lend. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,