Memorandums from Mary
Thursday, February 8, 2024
Tobacco Wives and King’s Daughters
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Buck Wyatt (Robert Taylor, right) and Roy Whitman (John McIntire, left) greet a room of potential “mail order” brides in a Westward the Wom...
Saturday, February 3, 2024
Wealth and Cultural Identity
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A representation of Metacomet, Metacom or King Philip (as he was variously known), as drawn by Paul Revere . In her book, The Name of War: K...
Thursday, January 25, 2024
“Giving Their All” for America
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A 1948 Shmoo clock (with store display) from Lux Clock Company. According to a Harlan Ellison (author, 1934-2018) article, “Shmoo Goes The...
Saturday, January 13, 2024
“Bad” Blood and Rotten Bodies
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Although the Bible preaches (in Leviticus 19:33-34), “to not vex strangers,” and “love them as thyself,” groups have acted with prejudice to...
Saturday, January 6, 2024
Prepared for Democracy on the Anniversary of January 6th?
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In Frank Capra’s Meet John Doe (1941) Gary Cooper plays a homeless man who’s used by corrupt forces to control a budding populist movement....
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