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If you missed my talk on Caroline Helen Parrish Brown you can watch the recording below. Or keep scrolling and you can view all the...

This is a Bone China Pot manufactured by the Spode pottery company based in England. This small 3” pot features two paintings of distinct...

This is a decorative Westmoreland Glass Dish manufactured between 1890 and 1930.

With Long Island being as heavily populated as it is, it makes sense that it is full of different urban legends and ghost stories. I feel...

This is a box of Pa-Pay-Ans Bell indigestion pills, manufactured by Bell & Company Inc., located in Orangeburg, NY

This is a bottle of Dr. Hess Poultry Inhalant, an aid for clearing mucous from the respiratory tract in chickens.

It seems the more you tell ghost stories, the more you get told. They have an infectious way of coming out of people. The second I bring...

This is an Edison Blue Amberol Record, manufactured by the Thomas A. Edison Inc. holding company between 1912 and 1929.

Continuing with our spooky themed blog entries for the month of October below we have an episode of the Long Island Paranormal...

This is a box of Anacin Analgesic Tablets, used to treat “simple headaches and minor neuralgia”.

During the late 19th and early 20th century, 'consumption' was the term for tuberculosis. The demand for a cure brought about countless...

While some enjoy watching horror movies year round, October is certainly the time of year the general public will indulge in these...

For Southampton historians, William Smith Pelletreau (1840-1918) is revered for preserving town records (his tombstone read “He rescued...

With the right amount of deterioration, spooky lighting and imagination, any old building can look and feel spooky. But is there really...

These two Baroque Silver objects, a cream pitcher and sugar tureen respectively, were made by Joel Sayre (1778-1818).