Becky Fifield
The Brutal and the Beautiful New York State Museum
This weekend, Dr. V, Jake, and myself went up to Albany to visit the New York State Museum. We had the very good luck of running into...
top of page
BECKY FIFIELD
The Still Room Blog
Search
Becky Fifield
Jan 3, 20163 min read
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...
6 views0 comments
Becky Fifield
Dec 5, 20151 min read
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...
3 views0 comments
Becky Fifield
Dec 24, 20131 min read
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...
6 views0 comments
Becky Fifield
Jun 11, 20131 min read
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...
3 views0 comments
Becky Fifield
Jan 29, 20132 min read
Transit Tuesday: How do you get to Annapolis without a car?
I was peeved. During my Christmas break in Maryland, a winter storm blew in on the day I’d picked to spend some time at the state...
1 view0 comments
Becky Fifield
Oct 16, 20122 min read
Transportation Tuesday: Two Loves Collide – Historic Preservation, Transportation, and the Sus
Sorry for the pun. Photo: r25 Productions. Flowers by Amanda’s in Havre de Grace. Since I was a little girl, driving into Havre de Grace...
2 views0 comments
Becky Fifield
Oct 9, 20124 min read
Transit Tuesday: Rail – Stories of Our Demise Are Greatly Exaggerated
Call me a dreamer. A romantic. Impractical. Head in the clouds. One of those city folk (that’s hilarious, you should see where I grew...
1 view0 comments
Becky Fifield
Sep 16, 20125 min read
Westward Ho! My Third Great Grandfather Travels, in 1851
Ancestry.com, as a genealogical tool, is a start for many doing genealogy. I see it as a way to sketch and share only. There are a lot of...
1 view0 comments
Becky Fifield
Aug 7, 20121 min read
Transportation Tuesday: Runaway!
This post is not about servants. So much of the time when I refer to runaways, it’s in relation to indentured and enslaved women....
0 views0 comments
Becky Fifield
Jun 30, 20121 min read
Poem
More train poetry, spawned by the parade of deteriorating industrial buildings which may be viewed by Amtrak and NJ Transit passengers...
4 views0 comments
Becky Fifield
May 8, 20121 min read
Transit Tuesday – How I would have loved to take the train to Albuquerque…
But instead, all I got was this tiny seat on a tin-can of an airplane. I investigated the details of how I would possibly get to...
1 view0 comments
Home and Blog: Subscribe
2012-2016
Home and Blog: Instagram
Home and Blog: Contact
bottom of page