A History Garden

                              Which can be achieved by simply mentioning the title of THIS KIDS IN THE HALL SKIT ...  

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This year marks the 300th anniversary of the creation of the town of South Kingstown. When I realized in late January that the community that was so much the focus for my MA thesis was celebr...

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THE 1968 COUGAR XR7-G . Only about 600 of these "Shelbyized" Mercury Cougars were ever built. It came with a choice of five different engines, from a 302 to a 428, and four transmission choi...

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While researching my MA thesis, I spent some time studying the work of Woody Holton, McCausland Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. At the time, I was most interested in his...

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I came across this post by ROADTRIP NEW ENGLAND on the OLD IMAGES OF RHODE ISLAND  page, a private group on Facebook that posts a lot of interesting images of Rhode Island. The first respo...

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 Tonight's presentation at the Western Rhode Island Civic Historical Society: 

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So once again we've just about frittered away yet another perfectly good summer. -- "What about existential dread? Can that be a hobby?"

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I finally made the trek to Wakefield Books in my car -- I have been in in Wakefield several times recently on the Grom, but without saddlebags it's a bit dicey carrying much in the netting on the...

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Wednesday I was driving to the opening day of the Washington County Fair in Richmond, coming from Wakefield Books and Hera Gallery in South Kingstown. Rather than battle the congestion of summ...

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  We will be back after a brief intermission... 

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Yesterday I was reading a recent article in an online journal I follow closely. The article, entitled "Benjamin Church, The First American Ranger" recounts the exploits of none other than Benja...

http://ahistorygarden.blogspot.com/2022/07/benjamin-church-whatever-else-he-may.html

A fedora, according to the American Hat Makers website "TRILBY VS FEDORA - WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? " is "a high-crowned (typically 4.5 inches), broad-brimmed (two to three inches) hat with a tear...

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On Monday October 28, 2019, renowned double bass player Ron Carter performed at a bass clinic Berklee Music School in Boston, where he "regaled a packed recital hall with stories about playing wi...

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Last night I gave my first public history lecture since November of 2020. I gave my presentation on Rhode Island democracy for the Western Rhode Island Civic Historical Society, in the Tavern Roo...

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Giving students an overarching theme to come back to over and over as the course progresses can lead to some interesting "aha!" moments, or at get students to think about the implication of c...

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Big History, ACCORDING TO KHAN ACADEMY , is "a unified account of the entire history of the Universe that uses evidence and ideas from many disciplines to create a broad context for understandin...

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PUBLIC DOCUMENTS ARE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN; NO COPYRIGHT RESTRICTIONS! Necessary Equipment Digital camera  8-10 megapixels minimum resolution AA batteries vs. rechargeable “battery pack” ...

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The Expanse is a science fiction series of novels written by James S. A. Corey, the pen name for a collaboration between authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. The Expanse story consists of nine m...

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-- scroll down the red and white "play" triangle labeled "LISTEN 18:59 Andy Ihnatko on BPR | July 22, 2022"  In a way, it also A FOLLOW-UP TO THIS 2016 POST on this blog, extolling the virtu...

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When I first started this blog a decade ago, I realized that there was often information I would come across that was interesting but perhaps did not need an entire blog post to get across. Hence...

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> "Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our > control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, > whatever are our own actions. T...

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Today I put on my "President of the Rhode Island Council of the Social Studies" hat and went to a Zoom meeting hosted by RI Civic Learning Coalition. Today's meeting included members of the ...

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When HistoryCamp was first conceived circa 2013-2014, I had heard about it somehow. I don't remember exactly where or how anymore, but I remember hearing it was going to be an "unconference." At ...

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On this, the seventh anniversary of Freedom Day, I want to share some Star Wars Episode IV love.  George Lucas has made many edits and re-edits of the the original Star Wars trilogy, and n...

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This is the next unit in the Rhode Island History course proposal: Unit II: The Founding of Colonial RI and Roger Williams Roger Williams c. 1603 - 1636 Roger Williams and Rhode Island’s ...

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