The Man Who Came to Dinner

And the greatest British adventurer you’ve never heard of. To Alexander Woollcott, for reasons that are nobody’s business.

Gene Stratton-Porter’s portrait of an Eastern Screech Owl.

Photographer Gene Stratton-Porter was born on August 17, 1863.

Shakespearean actress Julia Marlowe was born on August 17, 1866, in England.