From The Hacienda

  In the third and final book on aviation, the book club turned to a book of historical fiction,   Above the Fray ,  a Novel of the Union Ba...

  The second book in our theme of Aviation was   Pancho: The Biography of Florence Lowe Barnes  by Barbara Hunter Schultz. Pancho Barnes  wa...

  The next theme for the book club in 2015 was   Aviation . We started with   Birdmen   by Lawrence Goldstone.  Like all new technologies th...

The third book in our series was  Dark Side of Fortune: Triumph and Scandal in the Life of Oil Tycoon Edward L. Doheny by Margaret Leslie Da...

The book club’s initial theme was the decade of the 1920’s. The second book on our list was   Last Call   by Daniel Okrent.  During the life...

A NEW BEGINNING The first book the Book Club read was   One Summer: America 1927   by Bill Bryson. By the way, the book club was named The E...

Many guests come to the Homestead Museum seeking connections to the past. The historic houses and the artifacts provide guests with these c...

Greeting everyone, I hope you all doing fine. Paul Spitzzeri, Museum Director, has extensive experience in collecting artifacts used to...

Three years ago, the Book Club read and discussed  The Great Influenza  by John B. Barry. The book was written in 2004 and the paperback ve...

At this time I would normally send out the first of three notices about our upcoming book club meeting. The coronavirus has changed our sch...

The current crisis has placed heightened focus on sanitation. Since we are a history book club, today's feature is the history of...

Warren G. Harding by John W. Dean Today  the Book Club was scheduled to  discuss  Warren G. Harding  by John W. Dean. As I previous...