These glazed and roasted carrots are delicious, easy to prepare, and a versatile side dish for any meal. Vegetable recipes such as this would have been staples of a Gilded Age dinner.
As the days since the murder had gone by, whispered rumors had developed into a hurricane of accusation against Arthur Pennell. At last, it had made its inevitable landfall—though most would not have guessed that it would destroy both Pennells.
We all are familiar with the old saying ‘all that glitters is not gold’, and since I’m a student of the Gilded Age, it’s a phrase that has special significance to me—and it gave my newsletter its name.
It’s difficult to overstate just how captivated Buffalo and the entire nation were by the news that a prominent businessman had been murdered in his own home—and of his wife’s spicy extracurricular activities.
A little before eight on February 27, 1903, Mrs. Hull (Allie’s mother) awoketo a quiet house. Ed should have long since been up and about, but there was no sign of him.
Edwin Burdick had dragged his feet for more than four years over the matter of divorcing his wife. As Ed was, like all of us, a complicated human being, he had his reasons.
Today we will begin to confront what is arguably Buffalo’s greatest unsolved mystery—the February 1903 murder of businessman Edwin Burdick in the private ‘den’ of his home at101 Ashland Avenue.
Before I begin: Check out the Wikipedia entry on ‘‘Black & Tan Clubs’, and you’ll find that Wikipedia, which is often wrong but never in doubt, claims that the first ‘black and tan club’ (a term for a nightclub or bar that welcomes patrons of any race) was Chicago’s Café de Champion in 1912.
One doesn’t have to watch too many movies set in the Victorian/Edwardian period to think that most streets circa 1880-1900 were much like this one, dark and scary in a Sherlock Holmes/Jack the Ripper sort of way . . .
