Just Yesterday

This tranquil scene of an icebreaker leaving harbor belies the fact that from December until spring, ice owns the Great Lakes. In 2015, more than

It started like a biblical plague. Insects and snakes came down the trembling, smoking flanks of Martinique’s volcanic Mount Pelée in the spring of 1902,

Imagine driving the runabout pictured here from New York to Florida. In 1930. That’s exactly what Frank Morley did. The adventurous college student from Mount

Plunger is perhaps not the best name for a submarine, but it didn’t scare off President Theodore Roosevelt. Plunger was a pioneer, one of the

No fishfinder, no GPS, no outboard, no cellphone. Just two men, a boat, a pair of oars and a tarpon. And that long, thin “silver

The late 19th and early 20th centuries were a time of technological wonders, among them the incandescent light bulb, the automobile and the airplane. Refinements

What are these men doing, and what is all that metalwork? The clue is in the background, where the shape of a ship’s bow can

Drew and St. John, proud steamers of the People’s New York & Albany Evening Line, pass on the Hudson River. And the two most important

The Florida Keys, circa 1960. This is the boater’s version of the American Dream. Dad has fired up the grill, and sister stands by looking