January 1-7, 1919 The diary that this blog has been based on was kept faithfully through the years 1912 and into 1919 by Kate Shippen Roosevelt. As I began reading through her writings for the…
December 22-31, 1918 Just three days before Christmas, 1918 and Kate Roosevelt was spending a great deal of time inside a department store once known as Siegel- Cooper, “the Big Store.” When it opened on…
December 12-22, 1918 It never ceases to amaze me when I read something written by Kate Shippen Roosevelt in her diary and today was no exception. In the middle of December, 1918, she wrote, “Went…
December 1-8, 1918 The first week of December, 1918 found Kate Roosevelt in the front row at the Bijou Theater located at 209 West 45th Street watching a new play called Sleeping Partners and complaining…
November 25-30, 1918 World War One was officially over and New York City was soaking up every minute of victory and Kate Roosevelt’s diary recorded it all. “The parade on Fifth Avenue was quite a…
Growing up with Frankenstein as her father was as far from being part of a horror show as could be. That was how Sara Karloff remembered life with Boris Karloff and how he handled originating…
