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Historian, author, educator/Director of Museum Studies at University of New Hampshire & the UNH Flax-to-Linen Project
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So excited that Seminar week is here! If you can’t be with us in Deerfield this weekend, note that recordings for registrants are available on demand for the month following the Seminar! #AmRev250 #Publichistory

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J. L. Bell, co-chair of our conference program committee this year, is getting into the “Recalling the Revolution” theme with an online presentation for Old North Church called “The Ghost of Major John Pitcairn” on Tuesday, June 24, at 7pm: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-ghost-...

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Just checking the weather forecast for June 27–28, the days of our conference. Highs in the 70s! Good for meeting in Historic Deerfield’s community center and visiting the historic buildings. And on Friday there are optional walking tours of the Revolutionary town. dublin-seminar.org/our-2025-con...

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Depending on one’s mood while viewing, the sitter’s visage could be interpreted in many ways. I leave you to create your own caption, kind readers. The Rose, by Frédéric Soulacroix (French, 1858–1933)

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AI scraping bots looking for training data are overwhelming the servers of libraries and archives, making valuable, public resources unavailable to people. We are losing access to original writing and getting gimmicky writing in return through LLMs. #AIEthics #writers www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...

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For any of my friends who will be attending the @dublinseminar.bsky.social in Deerfield at the end of June, please join me for a happy hour at Treehouse Brewing on Friday, June 27 to geek out about all things Revolutionary! All are welcome, and please feel free to share!

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Folks arriving early for our “Remembering the Revolution” conference on Friday morning, June 27, can sign up for a walking tour of Revolutionary sites around Historic Deerfield and a special viewing of Revolutionary materials in the Memorial Libraries – dublin-seminar.org/2025-dublin-...

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The photo below shows a parade float sponsored by the telephone company as a tribute to Paul Revere’s Ride. Doesn’t it look festive? Explore ways New Englanders have remembered the Revolution—museums, markers, music, massive obelisks—at our June 27–28 conference: dublin-seminar.org/our-2025-con...

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Register for our “Recalling the Revolution in New England” conference at Historic Deerfield next weekend, either online or in person, and you’ll have access to all the presentations for a month, from Anishanslin (keynote) to Zea (Putnam powder horn). dublin-seminar.org/our-2025-con...

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#ProfessorFlaxseed here….Pop up demo and #flax information table at the #WoodmanMuseum #SummerSolstice event today. It has been a very busy week in our #flaxfields — hand watering, weeding, & on-site processing. Huge thanks to @trueyankees.bsky.social for assistance on even the hottest of days! ☀️🌱☀️

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I've shared this video before but here it is again. It's so good. A very accurate depiction of what a visit to a bathhouse would have been like in late Medieval Germany: youtu.be/AFCTG74HF7Q?...

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Happy #Juneteenth! 🤎🙏🏾✊🏾

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Juneteenth is a celebration of freedom, but also a reminder: freedom delayed is freedom denied. #Juneteenth #BlackHistory #FreedomDay #NeverForget

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Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

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#sunshine☀️ in a #dress for the longest day - in a silk faille dinner dress by Emile Pingat, c.1868 at Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia Museum of Art Read on: www.philamuseum.org/collection/o... @philamuseum #emilepingat

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On Juneteenth, a reminder that Commonplace has 25 years of free, open access articles on slavery and abolition up through this week's piece by Jayne Ptolemy about documents related to William Ansah Sessarakoo. Browse the Slavery and Abolition subject page here: commonplace.online/topic/slaver... 🗃️

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There is still beauty in the world. (photographer unknown.)

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Just came across ‘A Flag for Juneteenth’ & am adding it to the books to read to my 1st grandkiddo. The author, KimTaylor, is a quilter and understands the connections between textiles, memory & meaning. #juneteenth

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Happy summer Sunday ! “And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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A+ sign spotted by a friend in Woodland Hills, CA:

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Raskin: You are not our king, and we are not your subjects. We will never be your subjects. All of us born here on this land are citizens and your executive order is nothing but bad graffiti on the Constitution, and we're going to wash it off today

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When Tim Walz became Kamala Harris's running mate, progressives highlighted policies passed. It could not have been possible without Melissa Hortman. -Free school breakfast and lunch -Restoring voting rights for felons -Paid leave Great piece by @gracepanetta.bsky.social 19thnews.org/2025/06/rep-...

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Look what I found when I searched "ICE uniform" in Google Shopping. None of us have any way of knowing if the "ICE agent" pushing you into a car, isn't just some unbalanced vigilante into cosplay. These are very dangerous times.

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A Branch of #Gooseberries with a #Dragonfly, an Orange-Tip Butterfly, & a Caterpillar, 1725-1783, by #BarbaraReginaDietzsch (German, 1706-83). Held at the National Gallery of Art, www.nga.gov/artworks/140... #NationalDragonflyDay #womenartists #artherstory #hernaturalhistory

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Today's protesters: Thank you for showing up. And thank you for not taking the bait from the fascists hoping for footage of violence to use as propaganda on Fox News. You knew the assignment. Well done.

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No kings EXCEPT for this royalty 😍

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BREAKING: Senator Padilla after being thrown to ground and cuffed: “If this is how this administration responds to a senator with a question, if this is how the department of homeland security responds to a senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers..."

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the malignant iron scorchingly devoured the baptismal blood

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How did New England women use material culture to give meaning to the Bunker Hill Monument in the 1840s? And in the 1940s? Prof. Sarah J. Purcell @sarahjpurcell.bsky.social analyzes that at our “Remembering the Revolution” conference in Deerfield, June 27–28. dublin-seminar.org/our-2025-con...

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Dr. Hattem is on the program committee for our June 27–28 conference, “Remembering the Revolution in New England”: dublin-seminar.org/our-2025-con... His books explore the wider themes of national memory in and after the American Revolution.

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Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

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Never change, Penzeys

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31 MAY 1775, NEW BERN, NORTH CAROLINA: The royal governor, Josiah Martin, sends his wife and children to New York for their safety, and after dark, takes refuge himself at Fort Johnston.

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Did you attend the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife in its early decades? At first we met in Dublin, New Hampshire (hence the name). Only later did we move to Deerfield. As we look ahead to our 50th year in 2026, we want to collect photographs of past conferences!

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Remember the American Revolution by playing it on your piano! Alexander Cade, assistant curator at the Museum of the American Revolution, speaks on how illustrated parlor music shaped American national identity in 1800s New England at our June 27–28 conference, “Remembering the Revolution”!

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From @historicdeerfield.bsky.social exhibition of #DeerfieldAcademy #portrait coll, on view now. John Singleton #Copley (1738-1815) portrait of Griselda Oliver (Waldo) ca. 1758. Working in #Boston prior to the #AmRev Copley captured the nuances of taste & style for both #patriots & #loyalists alike

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#RabbitRabbit Wishing you and yours a month of health & wellbeing A special image from the PVMA/Memorial Museum at Deerfield: Detail, Rabbits in the Pea Patch, by Ellen Miller , 1907, dyed linen. Gift of Esther Ward, 1984.13a.01 Thank you #LindsayKruzlic for the tour!

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Visited new exhibition *Body By Design* at @historicdeerfield.bsky.social High recommend putting this on your planner if you are in New England in 2025. Curated by #laurenwhitley

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A very quick flip through the pages of tinyStudio magazine issue 27, publishing 28 May in digital and print. There is a lot of inspiration packed into this issue! Available on my website later this week :) #tinystudio #fiberygoodness #magazine #fiberart

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“Living with Disabilities in New England, 1630–1930” is our latest Proceedings volume to come off the press, based on our 2021 conference. The design was optimized for machine reading because we wanted to make this volume as accessible as we can. Contents here: dublin-seminar.org/2024/09/24/l...

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Our conference’s June 27 keynote speaker will be Zara Anishanslin, author of “Portrait of a Woman in Silk.” She’ll introduce her new book, “The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution.” dublin-seminar.org/our-2025-con...

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Currently #researching NH #homespun #handwoven #linen at the #WoodmanMuseum #DoverNH lPictured are linen sheets woven by Eunice Pinkham & sewn by her daughter, Phoebe between 1810-45. They are in good condition, finely woven. Thank you to the Museum staff.

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250 years of Leslie's Retreat on the blog today in advance of the big commemoration weekend! I don't really think it was the "First Resistance" but try telling that to anyone in #salemma! And competing colonial narratives, always. streetsofsalem.com/2025/02/17/l....

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All members of the Dublin Seminar are invited to the annual meeting tonight at 7pm, online. We’ll talk about the organization’s upcoming conference, publications, and other plans.

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Folks arriving early for our “Remembering the Revolution” conference on Friday morning, June 27, can sign up for a walking tour of Revolutionary sites around Historic Deerfield and a special viewing of Revolutionary materials in the Memorial Libraries – dublin-seminar.org/2025-dublin-...

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On the topic of presidential mental acuity, the current president was awake at 1:30am rage tweeting about his former opponents’ crowd sizes and calling Beyoncé, Bono, and Bruce Springsteen ‘unpatriotic entertainers.’ Where is the news cycle about his fitness for office?

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Good morning 🌞🌞🌞 Portrait bust of Madame Chauvire by #Pigalle in terra-cotta #beauty #SpringfieldMuseums

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The children's series has found a new streaming home — Netflix, PBS stations and PBS KIDS will air new episodes on the same day. And Netflix will also run 90 hours from the Sesame Street library.

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It seems highly likely that the pardoned J6ers have committed (other) crimes at a far higher rate than non-citizens residing in the US. Strangely, it’s only the latter category being scapegoated as a “dangerous criminal element.”

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