From 'Letters to Huldah.' (short story)

Hecate | May 1, 1996| | Copyright

Friday January 27, '89

Dear Huldah,

When you said you'd be interested to hear more about The Buttonhole, my mind became a patchwork of memories. I think every Sydneysider my age and even younger has not only heard of it but also at some time hired a fancy costume from it. I don't remember my grandmother's presence there - I was very young when she died - but I went there often with my mother when it continued to be run by my aunts, known to the staff as Miss Elsie and Miss Krissie.

I remember the smell of it, the musty dusty racks of costumes, the thick ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

	Cultural Politics in Polybius's Histories.(Book review) Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History ; Cultural Politics in Polybius's Histories, by Craige B. Champion...328 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). Polybius, Greek statesman and Roman captive...of the Mediterranean world inspire Polybius to write the first "universal history...
	The army of the Roman republic; the second century BC, Polybius and the camps at Numantia, Spain.(Brief article)(Book review) Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News ; 9781842172414 The army of the Roman republic; the second century BC, Polybius and the camps at Numantia, Spain. Dobson, Michael. Oxbow Books 2008 436 pages $80.00 Hardcover U35 Adolf Schulten's early...
	HOW WE KNOW WHAT WE KNOW!(historians view of Hannibal of ancient Carthage) Magazine article from: Calliope ; POLYBIUS The ancients tell us that Hannibal was a strong and resourceful...Second Punic War) comes from the works of two ancient writers -- Polybius and Livy. Polybius (pronounced po LIB ee us) was born in Achaea, Greece, in 200...
	Pompeii: the last day: one August afternoon, a mountain's rumblings caught the people of Pompeii by surprise. What would you do if a volcano erupted, and you had nowhere to run?.(World History Play)(Play) Magazine article from: Junior Scholastic ; ...10 o'clock that morning ... Julius Polybius: How are you feeling, Julia? Julia...Father. I couldn't sleep a wink. Polybius: Well, that's natural--you're...Excuse me, sir. You wanted to see me? Polybius: Yes. I'm running for office, so...
	PROFESSOR FRANK WALBANK Newspaper article from: The Independent - London ; ...on the Greek politician and historian Polybius, who composed his history of Rome around...three-volume Historical Commentary on Polybius - a project launched in 1944 and completed...Walbank also published the monograph Polybius (1972), and many of his 350-odd...
	On whose side is history? (capitalism versus communism) Magazine article from: National Review ; ...Greeks--Herodotus, Xenophon, and Polybius. They were excellent narrators, consummate...meaning. On the sole occasion on which Polybius came fairly close to raising that question...definite and meaningful answer. Not so for Polybius. In relating the Roman conquest of Greece...
	The twin towers of Anselm Kiefer and the trope of imperial decline.(Briefly Noted)(Report) Magazine article from: The Germanic Review ; ...maritime empire in the Mediterranean. Polybius, the historian who accompanied Scipio...will be pronounced on my own country" (Polybius 437). The Roman general's "dread...awareness of the "mutability of Fate" (Polybius 437). According to Appian, another...
	Hannibal rising: a U.S. archaeologist is tracing the Alpine route taken by the legendary general Hannibal.(EARTH) Magazine article from: Current Science, a Weekly Reader publication ; ...to The Histories, by the Greek writer Polybius (circa 200-circa 118 B.C.E.). Though Polybius described how Hannibal led his men and...green Po River valley in northern Italy. Polybius wrote that just such a vista greeted Hannibal...
	The two Arcadias of Sidney's two Arcadias.(Philip Sidney, The Old and New Arcadia)(Critical essay) Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 ; ...information about the land of Arcadia are Polybius's description in the fourth book of...land of Arcadia, one seemingly based on Polybius's account and the other based on Sannazaro...another, very different dimension in Polybius's account of it. If Arcadia as a setting...
	Punic on the streets of Rome Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald ; ...Compiled by a fictional Greek exile named Polybius, the book comprises a series of journal...avert war are all pieced together by Polybius. There is no doubt that Carthage is...this, given that so much is made, in Polybius' account, of the rivalry between the...