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Transportation Tuesday: The Bridges of Cleveland
Passing under the lift bridge serving the Norfolk & Southern Railroad at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River. RL Fifield, 2012. There’s a...

Becky Fifield
May 29, 20121 min read


Following Eleanor Ferrell: A Runaway Indentured Servant
New: see the full article online here. If it doesn’t come up, go to the home page and search again. Abraham Emmit labeled her “an ill...

Becky Fifield
May 27, 20122 min read


Hike up your woolen undies: A Treatise on the Propagation of Sheep
Baa. Cool it, already. Photo: Imaginactory. John Wily wrote the motivational pamphlet A Treatise on the Propagation of Sheep, the...

Becky Fifield
May 26, 20123 min read


Digging Up My Ancestors – Smithsonian Edition
Click here for Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. Gibb Archaeological Consulting Crew, Cole Cemetery site, Aberdeen, MD, 2010. GAC photo. And...

Becky Fifield
May 10, 20122 min read


Digging Up My Ancestors – Smithsonian Edition
Click here for Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. Gibb Archaeological Consulting Crew, Cole Cemetery site, Aberdeen, MD, 2010. GAC photo. And...

Becky Fifield
May 10, 20122 min read


The Act of Research – London Metropolitan Archives Edition
A swatch preserved in the billet books at the London Metropolitan Archives. Thomas Coram Foundation for Children. Foundling number 12250,...

Becky Fifield
May 5, 20122 min read


The Act of Research – London Metropolitan Archives Edition
A swatch preserved in the billet books at the London Metropolitan Archives. Thomas Coram Foundation for Children. Foundling number 12250,...

Becky Fifield
May 5, 20122 min read


Argand Lamp – A moment of pause for Barbara Carson
She passed away this year, and today they are holding a memorial concert in her honor in Williamsburg. Barbara lived there with her...

Becky Fifield
Apr 29, 20121 min read


Argand Lamp – A moment of pause for Barbara Carson
She passed away this year, and today they are holding a memorial concert in her honor in Williamsburg. Barbara lived there with her...

Becky Fifield
Apr 29, 20121 min read


Digging Up My Ancestors – Inbred
This post is a continuation of a series chronicling the relocation of my family cemetery, including my 4th Great Grandparents James Cole...

Becky Fifield
Apr 28, 20122 min read


Digging Up My Ancestors – Inbred
This post is a continuation of a series chronicling the relocation of my family cemetery, including my 4th Great Grandparents James Cole...

Becky Fifield
Apr 28, 20122 min read
I Spy…Rural Commerce in the Nineteeth Century
I was using this Martenet Map of Harford County from 1878, viewable on the Library of Congress website, to do some family research. I was...

Becky Fifield
Apr 27, 20121 min read
I Spy…Rural Commerce in the Nineteeth Century
I was using this Martenet Map of Harford County from 1878, viewable on the Library of Congress website, to do some family research. I was...

Becky Fifield
Apr 27, 20121 min read


Digging Up My Ancestors
Click here for the first post on the Cole Cemetery relocation. My mother and I were standing in the Target parking lot in Aberdeen one...

Becky Fifield
Apr 12, 20123 min read


Digging Up My Ancestors
Click here for the first post on the Cole Cemetery relocation. My mother and I were standing in the Target parking lot in Aberdeen one...

Becky Fifield
Apr 12, 20123 min read


Road Trip: Bad Art in Motels
Art from a $36/night motel in Ft Wayne, IN. The picture is blurry because I had to get out of there. Motel operator horror vacui must...

Becky Fifield
Apr 11, 20121 min read


Road Trip: Bad Art in Motels
Art from a $36/night motel in Ft Wayne, IN. The picture is blurry because I had to get out of there. Motel operator horror vacui must...

Becky Fifield
Apr 11, 20121 min read


Welcome to The Still Room.
Barbara Fritchie Restaurant, Frederick MD, RL Fifield photo, 2009. Conjuring the appearance of a 17th or 18th century Still Room yields a...

Becky Fifield
Mar 19, 20122 min read
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