Making Great Exhibitions of Themselves

ANNETTE ON THE ROAD/THROWBACK Maybe we're harder to impress with spectacles in 2024 than people were in 1851. Maybe not. PLUS NBH Gifts!

The Crystal Palace, 1851. It must have seemed like a spaceship touching down in London’s Hyde Park. It was that spectacular. Plus we're visiting the most jawdropping house-thing-attraction ever, in Wisconsin. Photo: Public Domain.

Note from Annette

I'm home! I'm writing for you!

Of course you are, Laing. What else do you do?

Ah. You missed my last post. H…