Fict.History

History

Pots and Peucetians

Bari has a wonderful, recently renovated museum devoted to ancient archeological finds on the Salentine peninsula (the heel of Italy’s ‘boot’). While it’s much...

Green-Wood Cemetery

"By the 1860s, only Niagara Falls was drawing more visitors annually than Green-Wood. Twenty years before Central Park, the cemetery was effectively New York's...

10 Youghal Things

We spent this March in a town named Youghal. Depending on who you ask, it's pronounced 'Y'all', 'yoll' or 'yowl' and derives from the...

Dungarvan Days

We recently spent a month in a coastal town in Waterford County in south-eastern Ireland that is divided into two parts: Dungarvan and Abbeyside,...