Becky Fifield
Apple of My Eye: Lead Pesticide Use in 1920s Orchards
Orchard workers at Mt. Pleasant Orchard, near Havre de Grace, Maryland, c. 1915. Over the Christmas holiday, I unearthed a small journal...
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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
- Dec 10, 2013
- 2 min
Fighting Writing: Musings on the Recalcitrant Pen
Does a battle assume there has been a victory? Writing has a threshold that must be crossed, marking the departure from everyday life and...
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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
- Aug 1, 2013
- 1 min
Digging in the Archives: Swarthmore College’s Friends Historical Library
My time here at Winterthur is wrapping up. I took yesterday to visit two incredible local institutions, the Friends Historical Library at...
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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
- 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
- Dec 20, 2012
- 2 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 8, 2012
- 1 min
A Lesson in Water Conservation – from Martians
The Leaky Faucet features two of the weirder Muppets, The Martians. Their octopus-like lower halves are topped with wide flexible mouths...
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Becky Fifield
- Dec 8, 2012
- 1 min
A Lesson in Water Conservation – from Martians
The Leaky Faucet features two of the weirder Muppets, The Martians. Their octopus-like lower halves are topped with wide flexible mouths...
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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 30, 2012
- 2 min
New York at Night
RL Fifield. 2008. It’s something about the light of shops shining out onto the sidewalks, people wrapped in coats, the tall buildings...
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Becky Fifield
- Nov 27, 2012
- 1 min
Transportation Tuesday: Time to Get Geeky – The Amtrak History Website
Perhaps Amtrak is a little late for many rail fans, but the Amtrak history website led to me losing a few hours last night while I poked...
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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
- Oct 14, 2012
- 2 min
Writing Fiction – Business Trips Aren’t a Loss
Business travel breeds ideas. My business trips involve some off days, waiting around at my destination, combined with really long...
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Becky Fifield
- Oct 11, 2012
- 2 min
Eating Alone
One of many meals I’ve eaten while dining alone. Dusseldorf. RL Fifield, 2012. I can travel a fair amount for my job. Anyone who travels...
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Becky Fifield
- Oct 10, 2012
- 2 min
Wanderlust Wednesday: Seattle
Seattle. RL Fifield, 2012. It wasn’t supposed to be like that. Brilliant sun and a cloudless sky marked my days in Seattle. Like San...
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Becky Fifield
- Oct 8, 2012
- 2 min
Museum Monday: Some Humor, and Some Food for Thought
I think I heard about this study on the Registrar’s Committee of the American Alliance of Museum’s listserve, a very long time ago. If...
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Becky Fifield
- Oct 7, 2012
- 2 min
New York Diaries Redux
I moved into New York City proper in 2005, and while my journalling habits have given way to blogging, research writing, and fiction, I...
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