I think this is a relatively safe assumption to make: most people, no matter their culture, want to look pretty. Decorative elements exist everywhere, regardless of the materials available. Here in the plains of North America, you couldn't get, say, seashells as easily as you could on the East or West coasts. Therefore, one of the main decorative ( Read more... )

 These last few days I have spent many hours pouring over microform and microfiche, doing research for my thesis. I've looked at the Hospital Steward's Manual (essentially, how to run a military hospital, according to the Union army standards) and the first reel of at least two dozen that contain the United States Sanitary Commission records. That ( Read more... )

 I'm not sure if I mentioned it anywhere yet - I'm sure if I did I didn't talk about it in detail - but on Wednesday I got to be a part of the short film they're making at Fort Edmonton. <3

For some information on the Capitol Theatre project, see here. Long story short: they're building a new theatre on 1920s street at the living history museum, ( Read more... )

My final exams: Introduction to Translation, Art History (1848-1914), and an American Women's History course.  A few thoughts I've had over the course of studying for them...

I learned a new word while studying for translation - "Aphorism", meaning "an original laconic phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought." Also, "laconic: "using as ( Read more... )