Becky FifieldDec 30, 20152 minSamuel Adams’s Mother Was a FifieldRL Fifield vacuuming samplers with a dental vacuum in the old Textile Conservation Lab, MFA Boston, 2001. Back in the early aughts, I was...
Becky FifieldJun 14, 20132 minVanishing History: Recording African-American Burial GroundsOn a Sunday afternoon in 1992, I was collecting fallen autumn leaves along Chapel Road outside Havre de Grace, Maryland where my...
Becky FifieldApr 5, 20131 minA Maryland Breakfast: Fried Red Tomatoes in Cream GravyI recently visited my great uncle, Uncle B, in Arizona. Having left our ancestral seat for a life of western adventure in 1947, we don’t...
Becky FifieldApr 4, 20133 minConnecting the Dots: Convict Servants in MarylandEddie Izzard puns on the Church of England: “Cake or Death?” For people found guilty of committing small crimes in England,...