Lenora Rogers's Blog, page 56
December 1, 2016
Cabinets on Canvas
After stuffing ourselves with Thanksgiving dinner the day before, and Thanksgiving breakfast pie yesterday morning, we walked downtown to the Peabody Essex Museum to see their latest blockbuster exhibition,Shoes: Pleasure and Pain.It is a fine visual feast for sure, but not exactly thought-provoking for me (and I’m not really a shoe girl–but I did get some great pictures for another post), so I wandered next door to another current exhibition, Samuel F.B. Morse‘s “Gallery at t...
November 29, 2016
The Theologia, Brierley & the Grindletonians
During James I’s reign, an extraordinary text found its way into England. It had originally been written centuries earlier, probably by a monk in a monastery in the Frankfurt area. It was especiall…
Source: The Theologia, Brierley & the Grindletonians
The British Baronet who Vanished
Guest Post 10: The Klondike and the Lost Baronet (Part One).The following guest post article has been kindly contributed by Geoffrey A. Pocock, author of Outrider of Empire: The Life and Adventures of Roger Pocock (University of Alberta Press) and One Hundred Years of the Legion of Frontiersmen (currently out of print). The first part of this article can be found here.
His own blog can be viewed at www.frontiersmenhistorian.wordpress.com and his website is www.frontiersm...
¡Fidel Castro presente!
By Freedom Road Socialist Organization
On Nov. 25, 2016 workers and oppressed peoples of the entire world lost a giant with the passing of Fidel Castro Ruz. Fidel lived a life worth honoring, studying and emulating. He was a key leader in the 1959 Cuban revolution, in building socialism in Cuba for more than five decades to the present day, and in exemplary acts of international solidarity.
Fre...
Norman England: The Domesday Book
The Domesday Book
The Norman invasion of 1066, was led by Duke William of Normandy, who became William I (William the Conqueror), King of England. He who was a descendant of those pagan Vikings, who attacked coastal communities from Scandinavia, who settled in the Seine Valley in 911.
When King Edward the Confessor died, Harold seized the English throne, and Edward’s promise that William should succeed him, was ignored. This precipitated a Norman attack, as William...
November 28, 2016
Manipulating Memory: The Story of the 9th Massachusetts Monument at Gettysburg
Irish in the American Civil War
Gettysburg’s Big Round Top is home to one of the lesser known monuments on the battlefield. It marks the position held by the Irish 9th Massachusetts Infantry from the late evening of 2nd July 1863. The regiment had a proud service history during the American Civil War, but through no fault of their own, their contributions at Gettysburg could best be described as peripheral. Despite this, in the decades following the conflict, some veterans of the 9th felt th...
Kid Stone, Sutton Moor, West Yorkshire
Kid Stone on Sutton Moor, West Yorkshire.
OS grid reference: SD 99632 241758. A glacial erratic rock at the east-side of Kid Stone Hill, above Long Gate,on Sutton Moor, west Yorkshire. It has been a parish boundary stoneand way-marker for a long, long time although the actual boundary is ‘now’ some distance away to the south. There are “possible” faint cup-markings on the flat side of the rock, and at the other side there is a curious granite memorial stone to a...
Unusual For Their TIme: On the Road With America’s First Ladies, Vol 1: A Book Review
Unusual For Their Time, by Andrew Ochs, is a one-of-a-kind book, and a must-read for all FLOTUS aficionados!
Andy Ochs has written an extremely unique book. It is part historical-ish, part biographical-ish, part memoir-ish, part travelogue-ish – and completely delightful!
Contracted to film C-SPAN’s First Ladies series in 2014-15, the author-cum-camera toured the country visiting the homes, birthplaces and other sites connected with America’s First Ladies, plus a f...
November 22, 2016
Order of Chivalry: St.John
Order of St.John Medal
In 1048, the Order of St.John was born by Amalfian merchants, and its founder the Blessed Gerard. First came the construction of a church, convent and hospital in Jerusalem, offering care to pilgrims of any faith. What would follow over the years would be the creation of a chivalric order, which would evolve into a military machine.
A Papal Bull was issued on the 15th February 1113, by Pope Paschal II approving the hospital’s foundation, and placing...
