Cultural Historian Gifts

Hypocricy of advocates of the 'Chinese Wall' around the US

Antonin Dvorak

A plantation dance.

Sergei Prokofiev

'Resistance is futile - you will be assimilated.'

The Shape of Progress.

'But everybody does that stuff!'

"Don't you sometimes worry that if they do give us our stuff back we'll lose some of the sense of grievance that's so crucial to our cultural identity?"

"What does it mean? Heck, I don't know! It's mystifying!"

"The next song is for all you unreconstructed commies, who are still in love with their tractors."

Welsh Princess

"Yuppies! There goes the hood!"

Urban Development on Native American Territory

Greek Riots

'It's interesting that your great-grandparents came over from Ireland in 1887, but you still don't qualify for foreign aid.'

"That's the trouble with old people - they've got no respect."

Baptism Then and Now

"'Frankenstein' is Jewish. I'm Irish on my mother's side befcause she was green, and an 'O'Houligan'..."

"It's the addition for our family room."

"Pot of gold?! Nobody uses cash these days! Do you fancy a couple of gift cards?"

"If it were today"

'During the sexual revolution, Bradley hid out in Canada.'

Don't give up the hunting and gathering.

Honoré de Balzac

"We have to remember that our senior citizens were children of the 60's and 70's."

"Canadian Mt. ‘Rush’more"

NOW Kilroy gets COVID?!

"...You talking to me? Well, I'm the only one here... You talking to me?!" "Narcissus De Niro"

"I can tell you that's not the version of Uncle Sam that I grew up with."

"California has always been too big for its britches."

"The changes are coming much too fast—I never dreamed I'd see the hully gully in Estonia."

"They lead a simple life - they don't even put gas in their cars."

'Hurry, wipe it off before Dad comes home!'

You're my Mona Lisa.

At the Museum