I posted a piece on the NCPH "Off the Wall" blog last week about the phenomenon of "ubiquitous display" that we're exploring in our reviews over there. I got... - http://historyonwheels.blogspot.com/2011...
Only way to get through my pile of required reading this summer is to subject every book to grad-school-style quickie bone-marrow extraction, I'm afraid. This morning's victim: Thomas Summerhill's terrific book "Harvest of Dissent: Agrarianism in 19th Century New York."
Cathy is not embarrassed to admit she's finding Martin Van Buren absolutely fascinating (although as my colleague David Guss said yesterday, "Anthropologists are like dogs - we sniff everything and think it's interesting!").
Cathy does, really, have a live-and-let-live attitude toward snakes. But would be happier if the one in the back yard would stop lurking under the lawnmower.
Cathy likes how her Facebook news feed encompasses everything from local (Orange passes its override vote) to global (World Cup). What an interesting non-place this is!