Mary's pear and blueberry galette is an easy comforting pudding that’s so quick to make, but special enough for a dinner party. It would work well with tinned peaches or apricots as well.

Dion Pears was a British Impressionist & Modern painter who was born in 1929. How much does a Dion Pears cost? Dion Pears's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ...

Late winter can be a good time to force branches from spring-flowering trees and shrubs to bloom indoors. Once buds open, move the branches to a brighter room, out of direct sunlight. The arrival ...

A letter in the Directors' Correspondence archive describes how the deadly prediction of an old Chinese proverb about bamboo flowering came true. "When the bamboo flowers, famine, death and ...