Becky Fifield
Samuel Adams’s Mother Was a Fifield
RL Fifield vacuuming samplers with a dental vacuum in the old Textile Conservation Lab, MFA Boston, 2001. Back in the early aughts, I was...
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Becky Fifield
Nov 13, 20131 min read
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
Sep 5, 20132 min read
Oyster Shuckers
I used to hate oysters. Typically, tidewater Marylanders pat oysters in cracker meal, fry them, and if you need a condiment, slather on...
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Becky Fifield
Oct 2, 20121 min read
Transit Tuesday: More Griping about Penn Station
Inari sushi – sweetened deep fried tofu skin stuffed with rice dressed with rice vinegar, salt, and sugar. Photo by miwa_in_oz There is...
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Becky Fifield
Aug 28, 20121 min read
Transit Tuesday: Dusseldorf to Cologne
Say it with me: Hauptbahnhof. What a great word “train station” is in German. I was recently in Germany for work and I had a free day to...
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Becky Fifield
Aug 5, 20121 min read
Runaway Scavenger Hunt
In researching the lives of indentured and enslaved women during the 18th century, I’m trying to rebuild their communities, to better...
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Becky Fifield
Jul 28, 20121 min read
Eadweard Muybridge – Gridded on my mind
I wrote those words “gridded on my mind” years ago in a short story, the protagonist describing herself as the antagonist’s Eadweard...
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Becky Fifield
May 14, 20122 min read
Museum Monday: Why Museums Don’t Have Pictures of Everything on Their Websites
I hear the occasional grumble. Why is that photo of that object so bad? Why isn’t there an online database? Why are only selected objects...
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Becky Fifield
May 13, 20121 min read
Mothers Montage – An Homage to Mom
In honor of Mom, here are photographs of my mothers, from my own mom, to a couple of my great great great grandmothers. Even if old...
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Becky Fifield
May 4, 20122 min read
Other Families’ Photo Albums – What Am I Doing in There?
A visitor at New Windsor Cantonment photographs reenactors at the Brigade of the American Revolution’s School of Instruction, April 28,...
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Becky Fifield
May 4, 20122 min read
Other Families’ Photo Albums – What Am I Doing in There?
A visitor at New Windsor Cantonment photographs reenactors at the Brigade of the American Revolution’s School of Instruction, April 28,...
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Becky Fifield
Mar 21, 20122 min read
Wanderlust Wednesday: It All Began in Rome
International travel was not a priority when I was a child. There were visits to battlefields in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia,...
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