For Mother's Day, Verity gave me two hours of research time while she played and watched Tinkerbell.  Best.  Present.  Ever.

And look!  I have cool research stuff now!  One article from today's work is particularly appropriate:

"Many are called, but few are chosen and the rest are married . . . Where are the chorus girls of yesteryear?  They're at ( Read more... )

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susanwrites  is teaching a poetry class for incarcerated young men.  she blogged about the second session.  go read it, be touched, and if you have suggestions for what to read next, do let her know, kay?

Yesterday, after adding extremely rough wordage to the revision, turned into a day of research for THIS I KNOW.  And it was a success.  What was I ( Read more... )

Okay, circa 1915, would Ewbank sweepers have been used in the US?

For lovers of Victorian history: A 19th Century Slang Dictionary and Victorian Slang Glossary.

For non-riders out there, dressage (those light, fancy, ballet-like movements) is considered the highest form of equitation.  It's not as dangerous as Grand Prix jumping or Rolelx-level cross-country, of course, but it's freaking hard to train a horse, and it's freaking hard for most mortals to learn how to to do it.

I've never ridden sidesaddle ( Read more... )

Counterfeit Money for Newspapers Puts Them on Trail

BOSTON, Feb. 1.  -- Clews given to the police by newsboys resulted to-day in the seizure of a counterfeit plant in the West End and the arrest of eleven men.  In the last seventeen days 6,000 bad half dollars have been circulated in this city and its vicinity.  More than 1,000 of them werre ( Read more... )