Showing posts with label Amherst/New England History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amherst/New England History. Show all posts
Saturday, April 1, 2017

Amherst College Picks Emily Dickinson as New Sports Mascot

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In Surprise Move, Amherst College Picks Emily Dickinson as New Sports Mascot Edged Out Leading Contender: “Fighting Poets” Image of Em...
Monday, November 28, 2016

My Little Book-Historical Connection to Alice's Restaurant

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This book is my copy of the English edition of Ernst von Salomon 's bestselling Fragebogen (The Questionnaire [1951]). Von Salom...
Saturday, November 26, 2016

Post-Thanksgiving Book History Post

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What to do on that long Thanksgiving weekend after you've eaten your fill and watched too much TV? Turn to your books (or collections). ...
Thursday, November 24, 2016

Over the River and to Northampton? Did You Know Thanksgiving Poem Author Lived Here?

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ICYMI: last month, I posted a short piece on Lydia Maria Child, best known as the author of "Over the River and Through the Wood."...

Thanksgiving 2016: Link Dump and From the Vaults

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I tend to post something about Thanksgiving every year, so, rather than writing up a long new piece, I'll just share some items in t...
Friday, October 21, 2016

October 20, 1880: Death of Lydia Maria Child

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Most Americans of all ages are familiar with Lydia Maria Child's work even if they have never heard her name. Her 1844 poem, “ Over the ...

October 21: "Old Ironsides" Celebrates Another Birthday

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On 21 October 1797, Boston witnessed the launching of the USS Constitution, which remains " the oldest commissioned warship in the worl...
Sunday, October 16, 2016

Happy Dictionary Day, 2016

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" Dictionary Day " honors lexicographer Noah Webster, born October 16, 1758, and celebrated for his pioneering work in both docume...

15 October 1830: Helen Fiske (Helen Hunt Jackson) born in Amherst

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On October 15, 1830, Helen Fiske was born in Amherst. The friend of Emily Dickinson, who was born two months later (the arrival of both chil...

Rosetta and Maria Mitchell: Pioneering Astronomer from Massachusetts

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The timing of the end of the Rosetta mission --the first spacecraft sent to rendezvous with a comet--was fortuitous. On September 30, after...
Friday, December 25, 2015

Traditions of Christmas Past: from boisterous to banned to bourgeois

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From the vaults, via last year's Tumblr post : “‘At Home’ in the Nursery, or The Masters and Misses Twoshoes Christmas Party,” ...
Monday, December 7, 2015

Is Your Restaurant Breeding Bolsheviks?

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When we visited Boston earlier this fall for a little family gathering, we stayed, for sentimental as well as practical reasons, at the clas...
Tuesday, November 17, 2015

An Old Picture About Race in Amherst

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A year ago today, I put up a little post about a picture involving attitudes toward race in Amherst . With renewed discussion of problems ...
Monday, August 31, 2015

Town Meeting Follies. The New Hampshire View (2): Quaint Characters

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As noted in the previous post , a chance historic preservation and genealogy conversation on Twitter some years ago about antiquated New Eng...
Saturday, August 8, 2015

23 July 1793: Fall of the Mainz Republic (you haven't heard of it?)

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You haven't heard of this? Neither had I, at first. When I was a student at the University of Wisconsin, I was a history major, but I ...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Moon Landing Anniversary (and animation, space toilets, and cheese)

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If it's July 20, it's time to haul out my old post, which combines lunar exploration, zero-gravity toilets, animation humor, and the...