Two things you should know about me: I LOVE historic house museums, and I LOVE Florence + The Machine. Evidence to the former: I visit historic house museums, I research historic house museums, I took a whole class on historic house museums, and I work …
I have been thinking a lot lately about landscape history and how the natural world plays into interpretation at historic sites. I am working at Fort Ticonderoga this summer, a place that is both historic site and museum, and which has a history that is …
Was I a traitor the likes of the infamous one-time commander of the fort, Benedict Arnold himself?
A brief but meta museum musing from me today: as my co-editor Ava and I have been settling into our new editor roles, we’ve been performing some site maintenance. When we first started, because of the nearly fifteen-year history of the blog, the media gallery …
One of my favorite stories to hear my grandfather, the man I called Pop, tell, was the moment he first met me. My father, a first-time parent with mild OCD, was stricken with anxiety about any germs that visitors might bring to the hospital, so …
Nineteen years later, I’ve found it. A quick backstory, if you haven’t read my previous article: I have a distinct memory of an art piece I saw at the Currier Museum of Art between 2005 and 2007, when I was five or six years old. …