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Becky Fifield
Feb 27, 20152 min read
The Pain of Mosul – A Preservation Professional’s Perspective
I have spent my life caring for cultural heritage. As a museum collection manager, my work aims to preserve the physical and intellectual...
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Becky Fifield
Jan 6, 20151 min read
Maryland Preparations for the Sick, 1881
‘Tis the season for illness. Cooking tomes of the past often included a chapter of recipes to be made for the ill and infirm. Certainly,...
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Becky Fifield
Jan 1, 20152 min read
New Year’s Day – A Great Day to Run Away
Der Wöchentliche Pennsylvanische Staatsbote 9/17/1773. RL Fifield Photo. Library of Congress. Many of us choose some aspect of life to...
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Becky Fifield
Oct 16, 20143 min read
The Zoo, the Park, and a Baltimore Befuddlement
I’m not an expert on Baltimore, by any means. I’ve never lived there. I was born in Towson and grew up in Carroll County. But Baltimore...
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Becky Fifield
Sep 8, 20143 min read
Museum Monday: Why Set Collections Priorities for Emergencies? How to Get Started
Ready NYC has named their family emergency preparedness campaign “Winging it is not an emergency plan.” This may resonate with you if you...
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Becky Fifield
Jun 13, 20141 min read
Maryland Material Culture: Bushel Basket
Quiz: What does a Marylander most often associate with a bushel basket? Sure, you can put fruit or vegetables in it (pick-ur-own or...
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Becky Fifield
Jun 10, 20142 min read
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
May 9, 20143 min read
Don’t Confuse Geisha and Courtesans (Oiran and Tayu)
Images of geisha and courtesans are often mislabeled. For those unfamiliar with subtleties in the styling and wear of kimono, obi, and...
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Becky Fifield
Jan 22, 20142 min read
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, 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...
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Becky Fifield
Dec 10, 20132 min read
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
Nov 29, 20131 min read
Do Something Good for the Country on Black Friday: Don’t Shop Walmart
I don’t shop Walmart any day. I’m asking you not to shop it today. No. We are decidedly allowing Walmart to suckle local resources...
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Becky Fifield
Nov 27, 20132 min read
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 21, 20132 min read
George Frideric Handel and The London Foundling Hospital
George Fredrich Handel. Public Domain. The Messiah, written by George Frideric Handel in 1741 and first performed in Dublin before its...
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Becky Fifield
Nov 20, 20132 min read
A Philadelphia Servant, 1787
The Accident in Lombard Street. Charles Wilson Peale. Winterthur Museum. 1962.88. A pie lays broken in the street, a distraught servant...
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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
Nov 7, 20131 min read
Bye Bye Schrafft’s: Losing More Unique Buildings on the UES
Schrafft’s at 155 E. 79th Street as it appeared in 1944. A “Rat Poison” sign appeared on the front door of 155 East 79th street....
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Becky Fifield
Nov 5, 20132 min read
Transit Tuesday: Maryland *facepalm*
OK, we all know it, I’m obnoxiously devoted to my home state. So when I read current “transit” news about Maryland transportation...
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Becky Fifield
Oct 30, 20131 min read
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, 20132 min read
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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