@sheilar.bsky.social
World weary. Public historian toiling at the intersection of education and the hospitality industry.
Yeti Gritty
08.11.2025 17:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Miniature of late eighteenth-century French bath. Oval pool or basin situated beneath oval oculus.
French bathroom and bedroom of "the Revolutionary Period." Thorne Rooms. Art Institute of Chicago.
30.10.2025 22:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Will this be a public talk? I glanced quickly at Lake Forest's "Upcoming Events" and saw nothing listed.
27.10.2025 16:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Aunties against fascism.
17.10.2025 00:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Springfield, Illinois
16.10.2025 12:34 — 👍 23 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Loopy D and Long Tail.
09.09.2025 23:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bleak intersection in Anywhere, USA backgrounded by generic corporate hospitality architecture, oversized American flag, and dark Satanic utility smoketacks against a lowering sky.
My vision of Springfield, Illinois years before I could have dreamed I'd live in Springfield, Illinois.
06.09.2025 00:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Early 1990s. Star Top Café on Lincoln near Diversey and Racine.
30.07.2025 23:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If you’re close to Quincy, Illinois, I will be there this Thursday. I’d love to see you!
July 31st from 5-7 at the Machinists Lodge #822
I sang "Wernher von Braun" to myself this afternoon.
27.07.2025 21:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Fish poop.
05.07.2025 01:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The powerful odor of mendacity.
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Trump's latest cologne line: "Ain't nothing more powerful than the odor of mendacity."
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In Springfield, Illinois, naturalization ceremonies are held in the old statehouse in the room where Lincoln delivered the House Divided speech.
30.06.2025 22:44 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I'm acutely aware of how fortunate I and my colleagues are to be able to present history truthfully.
17.06.2025 00:12 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I'm a public historian working in Springfield, Illinois for the State Historic Sites at Springfield. The Old State State Capitol, one of "my" sites, is where Lincoln delivered this speech. It's also where the IL General Assembly ratified the 13th and 14th Amendments and ended the state Black Laws.
17.06.2025 00:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Post-No Kings cocktail hour.
14.06.2025 19:47 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Briefly" handcuffed. So, Jackboot Thuggery Lite. What a craven qualifier.
12.06.2025 23:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Whoa!
10.06.2025 10:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
And Hot Lincoln.
www.thecut.com/2019/02/what...
Reminiscent of this Paul Cadmus painting
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Late 1930s Moderne building topped by gilded human figure.
Topping Oregon's state capitol building is a shirtless pioneer guy in tight pants. He wields an ax and is very, very shiny. Salem, Oregon. May 2025.
31.05.2025 15:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I work in Springfield for the Illinois state agency that owns and manages historic sites. If a visitor so much as offers me a $5 tip for a site tour or walking tour, I may not accept the gift.
12.05.2025 04:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I work in Springfield for the Illinois state agency that owns and manages historic sites. If a visitor so much as offers me a $5 tip for a site tour or walking tour, I may not accept.
12.05.2025 04:11 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Dr Carla Hayden, our Librarian of Congress that Trump summarily fired today is a great librarian, a great public servant and we have been lucky to have her.
09.05.2025 01:22 — 👍 260 🔁 58 💬 13 📌 13The *comments* on this are *the most Chicago comments ever*. I'm laughing tears.
08.05.2025 23:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0On her visit to Springfield, Illinois, to rail against our sanctuary cities, Secretary Noem exploited the still-raw memory of a murdered community activist, Emma Shafer.
capitolfax.com/2025/05/07/e...
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