May 5th was opening Day at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893. It was the 400 (and one) anniversary of Columbus arriving in the New World. Here is an actual souvenir from one of the world buildings, this on Silk culture. There were several silk coccoons, some silk thread, and a silk ribbon withContinue reading “May 5 “In fourteen hundred ninety two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. In eighteen hundred and ninety three, Chicago debuted the ‘White City’””
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