"... the herald's buying books."  (If I may be forgiven changing the words to the old song.) I try to remind folks every onc...

During our short stay in Chicago earlier this year, as our long-suffering hosts were ferrying us all about the city, we passed a really grea...

… it’s a lot closer. The two shields below are on the face of one of the buildings of the Chicago campus of Northwestern University. Like th...

Daniel de Bruin, well-known heraldic artist, whose work - especially his bookplates - was truly unique, has passed away.  He was only 60. ...

It shouldn’t, I suppose – I mean, I’ve lived in the United States all my life, and I’ve seen it happen over and over (and over, and over, an...

... of my favorite things."  (With aplogies to The Sound of Music .) It's always fun when I can combine, or even see someone else...

So there we were, making our way across the airport parking lot after having dropped off our rental car, intent only on getting into the ter...

It's a terrible thing, when you find out something about the place you live that just makes you embarrassed.  Here I am, living in ...

For our last stop in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, we have the grave of Fitzhugh Lee (1835–1905). “Fitz” Lee, the grandson of Ri...

Our next bit of heraldry comes from a memorial placed in the cemetery by the John Marshall High School Corps of Cadets as a memorial to thei...