Leoma Lovegrove and her hit one-woman show My Studio was to a grand success at Broadway Palm The Matlacha Island phenom Leoma Lovegrove shared stories of her artistic adventures and the scores of interesting people, places and motifs she’s painted while she creating masterpieces on stage live to a medley of nostalgic tunes. “If you’ve ever wondered [...]
So, here are some more Christmas tree fun facts and trivia: President Franklin Pierce erected the first Christmas tree in the White House in 1856. In 1894 President Grover Cleveland displayed the first electrically lighted White House Christmas tree, which was lit with numerous small multi-colored lights. In 1917, Albert Sadacca, then a teenager, suggested to [...]
In the years following the Civil War, Christmas trees continued to rise in popularity. Where Europeans favored trees they could sit atop a table, Americans preferred big, full floor-to-ceiling trees that ranged between 7 and 12 feet in height. And they decorated their trees with homemade ornaments, as it would be decades before store-bought varieties became commercially available. For [...]
