Becky Fifield
Wanderlust Fodder: Atlas Obscura’s Interactive Map of Roadtrips in American Literature
Mr. I sent me a link recently to Atlas Obscura’s “The Obsessively Detailed Map of American Literature’s Most Epic Road Trips.” It is...
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Becky Fifield
- Nov 5, 2015
- 2 min
Thomas Bewick, Newcastle Wood Engraver (1753-1828)
Oil painting on canvas, Thomas Bewick (1753-1828). Cherryburn, Northumberland, National Trust. NT 530359. In digging through the British...
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Becky Fifield
- Aug 29, 2013
- 2 min
Catering to Clients in an 18th Century Philadelphia Shop
I spent July at a Research Fellowship at Winterthur Museum, Library, and Garden. This mainly meant identifying manuscripts and object...
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Becky Fifield
- Aug 21, 2013
- 2 min
Wanderlust Wednesday – By the Side of the Road
To sleep in your car – completely American? Or not normal? Here’s the Thing, Alec Baldwin’s excellent radio program. I’m not much of a...
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Becky Fifield
- Jul 8, 2013
- 1 min
Museum Monday – Working at Winterthur
I’m in residence at Winterthur Museum, Library, and Garden working on my 18th century runaway project and participating in a preventive...
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Becky Fifield
- Jul 1, 2013
- 2 min
Museum Monday: Developing Staff Resources for Managing Collections
My colleague and friend Rob Waller of Protect Heritage Corp. recently sent me a book he collaborated on in 1996, Developing Staff...
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Becky Fifield
- May 30, 2013
- 2 min
What I’ve Been Reading: Buying Into A World of Goods by Ann Smart Martin
Read this great book on 18th century commerce in the backwoods of Virginia. Ann Smart Martin’s Buying into the World of Goods: Early...
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Becky Fifield
- Feb 22, 2013
- 1 min
Communities Past: Former Commerce in Rock Run, Harford County, MD
Rock Run United Methodist Church. Harford County was a site of early Methodist activity in America. Rock Run, Harford County, Maryland....
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Becky Fifield
- Jan 30, 2013
- 2 min
Book: The Look of Architecture by Witold Rybczynski
It’s a little bit untrue to title this small volume solely a book. It caught my eye while I was perusing the stacks last week at the New...
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Becky Fifield
- Jan 28, 2013
- 2 min
(Music Plays) Lydia, The Tattoed Lady – An eighteenth century woman’s tattoo
The New Yorker Photo Booth blog highlighted tattoed women and a book about them Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and...
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Becky Fifield
- Jan 16, 2013
- 2 min
A Late Tribute to The Silver Spoon
The NYSL has old fashioned stacks, and up on Stack 11, I had been peering through books about railroad station design (alas, I did not...
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Becky Fifield
- Dec 20, 2012
- 1 min
Spaces that Feed the Writing Brain
McSorley’s. 2003. I just finished Dwight Garner’s “A Critic’s Tour of Literary Manhattan” in The New York Times (December 14, 2012). I’m...
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Becky Fifield
- Dec 1, 2012
- 2 min
Should We Feel Sorry for Twinkies?
Mourning miniature, 1788. Brooklyn Museum. 21.474. Twinkies. I’ve had a few. I’ve had more pink Snowballs and Suzy-Q’s than Twinkies. I...
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Becky Fifield
- Nov 23, 2012
- 2 min
Caraway.
Caraway and Salt Flatbreads from Agata & Valentina, NYC. RL Fifield 2012. Caraway. It’s lyrical. It’s herbal, savory, and astringent. My...
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Becky Fifield
- Nov 20, 2012
- 2 min
Transportation Tuesday: Amtrak’s Quiet Car
I was putting together another post on Amtrak when I stumbled across a New York Times Opinion on Amtrak’s Quiet Car by Tim Krieder. The...
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Becky Fifield
- Nov 16, 2012
- 2 min
Java Up: The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Grab your mug, get some joe, and crack open The Coffee House: A Cultural History by Markman Ellis (Wenfield and Nicolson, 2004). I was...
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Becky Fifield
- Nov 15, 2012
- 1 min
A Dinner in Winter, 1756
As Winter settles around our shoulders, I like to consider what was considered seasonal fare in the eighteenth century. I’m a big fan of...
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Becky Fifield
- Sep 20, 2012
- 1 min
Library Find: How To Manage Without A Maid
“Maid service is getting harder and harder to find at any price and only too often, even if you pay top wages, you will have to put up...
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Becky Fifield
- Aug 27, 2012
- 4 min
Museum Monday: Researching Museum Collections for Living History Practitioners
Lecturing at the Bergen County Historical Society, March 2011. I’m a Collections Manager in a large New York City institution. My first...
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Becky Fifield
- Jun 26, 2012
- 2 min
Books That Shaped America at The Library Congress
Go now, and visit the list at the Books That Shaped America project at The Library of Congress. The exhibition opens June 25 on the 2nd...
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