Posts by Pamela
Circling Back to the Question of History Podcasts
I am not a person who generally sits with my hands idle. When I watch something on the television screen, I do needlework, or color (1) or build spreadsheets about who my audience is, where they hang out on line, what they read, etc (2) Conversely, when I’m doing something that requires my hands to…
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Butterflies, Bugs, and Maria Sibylla Merian
Once you start looking, it seems like you find examples of women who did important things in the past everywhere. Women you’ve never heard of unless you happen to be in their field of expertise—and maybe not even then. Take, for instance, naturalist and illustrator Maria Sibyella Merian (1647-1717). She was trained as a painter…
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Heading Back to the Great River Road
In November, 2015, My Own True Love and I set out on an adventure. We headed south for a three-week trip along the Great River Road, a conglomeration of 3000 miles of local and state roads that follow the length of the Mississippi River. We started in Memphis, went south until we reached the end…
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