kdsh.bsky.social
Historian who likes finding the extraordinarily weird histories of ordinary life. Appreciates quirky friends and students. Delights in telling groaner puns to her kids.
environment. food. hiking.
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I resurrected my playing enough to get through it. Would love if choral composers ran their ideas past a brass player before orchestrating pieces that shift from 5 sharps to 5 flats, and much of it about an octave beyond normal.
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On Wisconsin.
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Woodman's had a sale.
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My teaching philosophy: not afraid to be wacky.
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Today's class also featured the survey results of an 1899 study on amusements of Worcester MA school children presented family fued style. Winning team got first dibs on choosing time period for presentation at the end of the unit.
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800! Eek!
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Grateful, but also now have 30 very ripe tomatoes (not to mention 4-5 ziplocs of semi-squashed cherry tomatoes) to consume in the next 24-48 hours. An object lesson in why supermarkets turned to flavorless, but sturdy ones.
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I bit the bullet and read to the end.
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Can confirm they do give very informative tours--just joined one a few weeks back.
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Yay! That's my (extended) family's place.
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Yum! But also, I'll eat all your fennel. Yum.
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Curators should look for offerings from the Animal Town Game Company. Their game featuring beavers battling the wolf and the Army Corps of Engineers was a favorite of my childhood. They made a Save the Whales game, too.
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Update: older kid is toying with a costume of the scariest creature he can imagine: an Exxon Mobil executive.
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#whyweareyearsbehind exhibit A. (Been writing up the documents from our joint 2018 research trip this week, so I mean this with all sorts of fondness).
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I had great luck with Martin Melosi's article in the Public Historian about whether the Fresno Sanitary Landfill merited historic designation status. I'm not sure this is what you are looking for, but it prompted one of the more rolicking discussions that term.
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Could you add me too, please? Still getting oriented here. Thanks.
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Fun! Love the sensory engagement and the pairing.
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it really is -- it will be telling to see whether and how effectively UUP can push back.