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Loving this series from McSweeney’s, “Dispatches from Civil War Reenactments.”  I’m personally and professionally a sucker for all things Civil War, re-enacting related, or produced by the fine folks at McSweeney’s.  However, I’m especially a fan of these handwritten notes about the process and experience of participating in reenactments. I’m [...]

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Thanks to Flickr user Tara  Bethune-Leamen who found this incredible magazine cover from 1923.  Oh my heavens do I like it.  A bit of internet sleuthing suggests that Success magazine is, in fact, still in print.  There have been several magazines that share the title Success but it looks like the one that is still [...]

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“If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.” ~ Howard Zinn

Excuse me while I get all political… I’m a [...]

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Image of Levis “Go Forth” via NotCot
Today I really, really should be prepping my lecture for a class I’m leading into the wild fields of Cedar Creek this weekend– especially since they will be actually reading my thesis!  Yikes.
What am I doing instead?  Wishing I was playing along with the Levis’ Go Forth alternate reality [...]

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Graduation Day at Georgetown.

I hadn’t meant to take a week away from this space but, in quick sucession, we moved, I graduated, my family arrived, my family left, my friends started to move, and we napped (not in that order, however).  It’s been an awfully emotional week or so.  Today I have some photos from [...]

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Hard for me to believe, I turned in my master’s thesis yesterday around 4.  I find this bizarre.  Good, exciting, but just… anticlimactic.  Made me miss Reed and Renn Fayre and champagne and party horns in the registrar’s office.
Anyway, I’ve promised a few of my friends, family, and super-helpful re-enactor friends copies, but if you’re [...]

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Here is the Wordle representation of my thesis (also known as my brain).  It’s due to my advisor and reader on Thursday (gasp).  I promise I’ll share it with you when I’m done… in 4 days.  Yeah, you might not be seeing me around so much for the next couple of days.

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Afraid I’m going to have to sign off for a few days… my thesis is calling me.  Soon, though, I’ll share the final product with you.  For now, I’m going old school cut-n-paste technology.  Usually it helps.

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I work for a peer reviwed journal, gnovis, that has been fighting an uphill battle back from the ambivalence of the past generation of CCT’ers.  That was not a very good sentence, it actually would not make it through our peer review process.  Anyway, I got to put my crafty skills to use making a [...]

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14th TN: Skirmish Drill at Winter Camp from Ashley Bowen on Vimeo.

I spent Saturday with the 14th TN at their winter encampment outside Hagerstown, MD.  It was a lot of (cold, shivering) fun– lots of laughter, a little good natured teasing, and some good food cooked in cast iron over a frying pan.  Not for [...]

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