Becky Fifield
The Crazy Things We Do for Cultural Heritage
I was at a children’s playgroup in Beacon, New York yesterday with my son. Yet again, I was trying to pull together in a coherent thread...
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Becky Fifield
- Jan 8, 2016
- 1 min
“Omelettes – Plain or with Rum”
What? Where in culinary history did I miss the inclusion of rum in an omelet? New York Public Library announced recently the availability...
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Becky Fifield
- Jan 3, 2016
- 3 min
Railroad Dreams: Danbury Railway Museum
If you mourn the destruction of the late, great Pennsylvania Station in NYC, you’ll find this glass heralding the coming of the new...
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Becky Fifield
- Jan 2, 2016
- 1 min
Snapshots from New Orleans
Aiji is a taxi driver. He is also the founder of the first burrito bar in Rwanda and a vegan chef. For right now, it’s the taxi while...
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Becky Fifield
- Dec 31, 2015
- 2 min
An Unfortunate Title for a “Great” Article on Penn Station
David W. Dunlap writes the rather fun Building Blocks column for The New York Times. On December 30, 2015, his contribution was titled...
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Becky Fifield
- Dec 5, 2015
- 1 min
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 17, 2015
- 3 min
ARCS and PACCIN at New Orleans: Collections Stewardship’s Bright Future
Originally published at rebeccafifieldpreservation.com. Lots of folks go to New Orleans for conferences. Within the distinctive streets...
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Becky Fifield
- Jun 10, 2014
- 2 min
Transportation Tuesday – B&O Centenary Pageant, 1927
Ladies in nymph-like attire twirling and leaping through fields – sounds like the turn of the century pageantry movement to me. The...
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Becky Fifield
- Jan 22, 2014
- 2 min
Wanderlust Wednesday: Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Redux
Better known as the PATH, the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad began shuttling passengers through its cast iron tunnels between Manhattan...
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Becky Fifield
- Dec 24, 2013
- 1 min
Christmas Dinner on the Rails
Christmas generally takes us to Maryland. While the Amtrak train I take travels over the Pennsylvania Railroad into Baltimore’s Penn...
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Becky Fifield
- Nov 27, 2013
- 2 min
Crossing Wright’s Ferry on the Susquehanna, 1787
The Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge over the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania, in the vicinity of Wright’s Ferry. U.S. Library of Congress,...
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Becky Fifield
- Nov 13, 2013
- 1 min
Wanderlust Wednesday: Some Food in France
More often than not, even the cheapest little roadside offering in France blows the socks off of much of what you can get in the United...
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Becky Fifield
- Oct 30, 2013
- 1 min
Wanderlust Wednesday: Montresor
Could the US have a program of “The Most Beautiful Villages” as France does? Dr. V and I, and friends Jeremy W. of Le Cafe Witteveen and...
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Becky Fifield
- Oct 28, 2013
- 2 min
And So It Goes: The Fall Crunch
September and October have been full of professional commitments. For those readers not familiar with museum work, this is often the...
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Becky Fifield
- Aug 28, 2013
- 1 min
Wanderlust Wednesday – Taormina
A few photos from a trip to Taormina, Sicily. It was early March and nearly desolate of tourists: perfect. Vegetation on the way to the...
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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
- Aug 7, 2013
- 1 min
Mexican Ice Cream in Kennett Square, PA
I usually think of mushrooms when I think of Kennett Square. This corner of Pennsylvania is known for growing famous fungus. Check out...
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Becky Fifield
- Jul 24, 2013
- 1 min
Wanderlust Wednesday – The Market at Loches
Dr. V, Jeremy Witteveen, (of Le Cafe Witteveen), and Tina Serafini and I all decamped to France in June. Our cheery, sunny French...
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Becky Fifield
- Jun 12, 2013
- 2 min
Wanderlust Wednesday – Indianapolis, and a little about Philadelphia
Thumbs up: Indianapolis. Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station on a Saturday night, the usual bustle gone. The World War I memorial. RL...
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Becky Fifield
- Jun 11, 2013
- 1 min
Transportation Tuesday: Sad state of affairs for train transport in Indianapolis
I was really impressed with downtown Indianapolis. Ambitious restaurants. People on the streets. Bike Lanes. A canal walk trimmed with...
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