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Episode 20: Nellie Bly Nellie Bly was a journalist, novelist, inventor, champion of social reform (and, oh yeah, traveled around the world, solo, in 72 days.)

She’s one of my favorite subjects covered by The History Chicks podcast, all the way back in 2012: thehistorychicks.com/episode-20-n...

She did it in 72 days! And she got to meet Monsieur Vernes in the process.

Went to see this exhibit on February 20 - the best thing I’ve done/seen all winter so far. I walk by the spot where this unbelievably talented artist had her Boston studio nearly every time I am downtown. The exhibit is beautifully curated and tells a life story along with showing the works.

Swoon for Julia Ward Howe!

Now the reason we're here
As man and woman
Is to love each other
Take care of each other
When love walks in the room
Everybody stand up
Oh, it's good, good, good
Like Brigitte Bardot

I was a newly registered 18-year-old in 1984 when I cast my first vote in a presidential primary. Jesse Jackson set the stage for my lifelong pattern of voting my conscience.

May he rest in power.

Thanks for the best conversation of the day. Glad I found your channel here.

I always feel lucky looking back. We sort of camped out at home with no heat or electricity and it felt like an adventure. And the neighbors helped each other out getting groceries via sled…our neighborhood was a peninsula so it was cut off for a while by flooding.

Funny!! My dad went to work in downtown Boston that morning…he was lucky to be able to get back home later on (Red Line and bus). There were already storms in January that closed school so my mom was also unthrilled with 4 kids home for weeks on end.

Where were you during the Blizzard of 78? I was at home in Quincy’s Houghs Neck neighborhood watching our basement fill up with floodwater. I was 12.

It was an epic storm with epic sledding and snow forts afterwards. I think school was closed for weeks.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

For Liam.

The spoiler’s in the title, but just in case you have never read/watched Little Women…don’t read any further!

Everyone knows that a central drama of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel is that Beth dies. This book asks, “but what if it was foul play?”

I loved this bold contemporary take - read it!

"ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

This rocks!

I got you. Hope it helps!

At the sculpture The Embrace on Boston Common, we celebrate the life and community of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. May his words and example continue to inspire and motivate. #MLKJrDay #TheEmbrace #loveissuchapowerfulforce

@boston1775.bsky.social and @satisfactory20.bsky.social feature at the top of the post as I interacted with them both last January!

History, art and tour retrospective – January – June 2025 So much to learn, so little time!

So much to learn, so little time!

A selection of art/architecture finds/history finds and favorites from the first half of 2025.

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Michele is standing next to a bronze bust of Mary Kenney O’ Sullivan. The frame is green marble with her name below and a quote above reading “I refused to do a man’s job without a man’s pay.”

Happy birthday to my #shero Mary Kenney O’Sullivan! Born on this date in 1864 in Hannibal, Missouri, she fought for women’s rights in the workplace, a woman’s right to vote, and for safer conditions for all workers. She is memorialized in Hear Us, a multimedia installation in the MA State House.

I’m not a knitter but came here to say this is so extremely cool!

A Mad King has usurped the power of Congress—which represents the American people. That is, he has seized power that belongs to you and me collectively. He has declared war without consultation with or approval from Congress. And with no imminent threat. This is a profound betrayal of the republic.

My favorite photo from yesterday. Greatest Generation meets Gen Z for an epic sweater battle (my mom and the girlfriend of her youngest grandson). Guess I best represent Gen X next year…

From the exhibition catalog: “This new, sustainable design concept dates from 2009, and is the work of the architects Gabriele and Oscar Buratti, who were commissioned by Roca,” a 100+ year old Catalan company.

I took this photo last year at the Design Museum in Barcelona (Museu del Disseny de Barcelona). In their permanent exhibition, Common Objects: Local Stories, Global Discussions, I saw this excellent utilitarian sink/toilet called the W + W washbasin and WC from the Roca company.

I have so many thoughts about this. Excited that architects and designers are thinking about the design implications for a basic human function. And wondering why it takes our society so long to figure it out!

My worlds collide: history, architecture and fire in Boston Boston Reborn: After the Great Fire of 1872 was not made BY me, but it felt like it was made FOR me.

My worlds collide: read my latest Woman Walking post about my deep connection with Boston and fire.
#walking #history #architecture #Boston #fire

The Last Bookshop, a marvelous used-book place in downtown LA, has a section labeled Decorative Books with the volumes color-coordinated.